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Beadle and Tatum's Studies of Biochemical Pathways in the Fungus

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Beadle and Tatum's studies of biochemical pathways in the fungus Neurospora helped define the relation between genotype and phenotype by establishing the one gene, one enzyme hypothesis, the idea that each gene encodes a separate enzyme. This hypothesis was later modified to the one gene, one polypeptide hypothesis.
-Auxotrophic mutation 103 grows on minimal medium supplemented with A, B, or C; mutation 106 grows on medium supplemented with A and C but not B; and mutation 102 grows only on medium supplemented with C. What is the order of A, B, and C in a biochemical pathway?

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