The language of life; an introduction to the science of genetics.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, 1966., 1966. 8vo. x, 242 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket with slight edge wear, but a very good copy. George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. "Organisms' metabolism–the chemical processes within its cells–are regulated by substances called enzymes. George Beadle and Edward Tatum proved in 1941 that our genetic code‚ our genes, govern the formation of enzymes. They exposed a type of mold to x-rays, causing mutations, or changes in its genes. They later succeeded in proving that this led to definite changes in enzyme formation. The conclusion was that each enzyme corresponds to a particular gene." – Nobel Prize. Muriel Beadle was married to George Beadle.