The scientists who identified a set of coordinately regulated genes,called an operon,responsible for lactose metabolism in E.coli were

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The identification of the operon responsible for lactose metabolism in E.coli was done by French scientists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod in the 1950s. They received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for their work on the genetic control of enzyme synthesis. Watson and Crick are famous for their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, Meselson and Stahl are known for their experiments on DNA replication, Hershey and Chase worked on the mechanism of viral replication using bacteriophages, and Linus and Pauling were famous for their work on protein structure.

The Scientists Who Identified a Set of Coordinately Regulated Genes,called