Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)
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The Evolution of Bacteria
In the early 1900s, a biochemist named Edward Tatum started to culture a strain of E. coli in the lab. He wanted to see whether bacteria like E. coli also followed the one for one gene for every enzyme rule that had been discovered in mold. And he blasted E. coli with X-rays managing to produce a few mutants which gave this huge indication bacteria have genes.
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