Word: beut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duarte, Dr. Ernest Beutler has concocted a reagent solution into which he puts a single drop of blood. The solution (which contains methylene blue) is blue. Blood from normal, healthy subjects turns it red within half an hour. But one of the 24 apparently healthy subjects whose blood Dr. Beut ler tested turned out to be abnormal: she was apparently a carrier of the recessive gene for galactosemia, for her blood took an hour to turn the solution red. A drop of blood from a galactosemic baby, who has inherited a double dose of the defective genes, one from each...
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