Neurospora, an Ascomycetes fungus has been used as a biological tool to understand the mechanism of plant genetics much in the same way as Drosophila has been used to study animal genetics. What makes Neurospora as a genetic tool?
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Neurospora, an Ascomycetes fungus has been used as a biological tool to understand the mechanism of plant genetics much in the same way as Drosophila has been used to study animal genetics. What makes Neurospora as a genetic tool?
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Neurospora (pink bread mould) is often called Drosophila
of plant kingdom. It is haploid in nature which helps in
immediate expression of every mutation. Beadle and
Tatum used it as an experimental tool to find out that
genes express their effect through synthesis of specific
enzymes.