Multiple choice

Work of Beadle and Tautum on Neurospora crassa proved that

  1. replication of DNA is semi-conservative

  2. viruses have genetic material

  3. every gene is responsible for specific enzymes

  4. plant cells are totipotent

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Explanation

The one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is the idea that genes act through the production of enzymes, with each gene responsible for producing a single enzyme that in turn affects a single step in a metabolic pathway. This was proved by Beadle and Tatum.

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