Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lush tropical shore along an inland sea, inhabited by huge flesh-eating dinosaurs. The area has thus yielded a rich supply of plant and animal fossils. Examining a specimen of the fossil under a microscope, Paleobotanist William D. Tidwell of Brigham Young University recognized the unmistakable cellular structure of the palm...
...molecular biologist, Har Gobind Khorana. 47, reported that it had achieved the first artificial synthesis of a gene-the basic unit of heredity in the nuclei of all cells. Although genetic material has been made in the laboratory before, scientists have always had to use at least some natural cellular material in the process. The Wisconsin achievement marks the first time that a single gene has been created entirely out of off-the-shelf chemicals...
Senior Faculty members in the department have been meeting since September in separate committees of cellular and developmental biology and of orgasmic and evolutionary biology (OEB). Previously the senior Faculty met together in one committee...
...Cellular and developmental biology is concerned with the structure of cells and their organization into tissues and organs. Organismic and evolutionary biology starts at that point and studies the development of entire organisms and populations, including animal behavior and evolution...
...cellular group is planning additions in the neurobiology area, while the OEB group is recruiting ecologists and behaviorists, Wilson said...