Walter Gilbert (1987)

Child prodigy and yet another physics convert, Gilbert was a Harvard physics professor who found himself spending more and more time in biology laboratories. His switch to biology helped foster a new generation of scientists.

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How Jacob and Monod showed the existence of the inhibitor (what Gilbert calls the repressor).

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16698. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 5

Jacob and Monod never identified the inhibitor, but Gilbert found it.

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16694. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 1

Before Jacob and Monod, people thought the amount of protein in a cell was constant and proteins turned themselves off.

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16695. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 2

Jacob and Monod discovered that genes control the amount of protein in a cell.

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16696. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 3

Where did the idea of negative control come from?

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16699. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 6

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16700. Video 33: Walter Gilbert, clip 7

To explain their data, Jacob and Monod had to hypothesize the existence of mRNA.

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