Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner
1927-
South African geneticist responsible for many significant advances in genetic research. Brenner confirmed in 1964 that genetic information is stored in sequence along chromosomes, and that the order corresponds to the sequence of amino acids that make up a protein. In 1967 he and Francis Crick decoded the DNA "stop" codon, one of the last to be deciphered. Later, Brenner and his colleagues set out to learn everything possible about an entire organism, C. elegans (a small nematode), setting the stage for the Human Genome Project.
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BORN: 1910, Paris, France
DIED: 1986, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Drama, Fiction, Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
The Condemned Man (194… Genetic Screening , The scientific procedure of examining genetic makeup to determine if an individual possesses genetic traits that indicate a tendency toward acquiring… Genetics and Genetic Engineering , pharm a place where genetically modified plants or animals are grown or reared in order to produce pharmaceutical products. The word is recorded from…
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