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...Fresh Fruit Salad. At 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 3 Nautilus made it. And just as the North Pole was history, it was also routine as the measuring of never-known-before statistics went on without letup. The water temperature at the North Pole, Nautilus found, was 32°F. The sea depth there was 13,410 ft., exactly 1,927 ft. deeper than previously estimated. An electrician's mate first class was sworn in for re-enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their...
Teaming up with Alfred H. Sturtevant, one of Morgan's men, Beadle worked for three years on corn and fruit-fly genetics. But he felt vaguely that something was wrong, that perhaps corn and fruit-fly chromosomes were almost worked out. His friend Professor Boris Ephrussi, a visiting embryologist from the University of Paris, agreed. Both decided that genetics had become too isolated; what it needed was ideas from other sciences...
Taking a leave from Caltech, Beadle went to Paris to work with Ephrussi. Their first joint experiment was the delicate feat of transplanting an eye from one minuscule fruit-fly larva to another. After many attempts, an eye took hold and lived, and the two young scientists spent a whole day of celebration at a sidewalk...
...with single, simple effects on an organism's chemical behavior. This is the chemical approach that revolutionized genetics. Beadle did not really get to work on it until he went to Stanford in 1937 as a full professor, and he wasted several years more before he concluded that fruit flies (almost sacred animals with geneticists) are not the best subjects for chemical genetics...
...Attitude. When Beadle and Tatum reported their success in 1941, they had quite a collection of defective molds, each needing some extra nutrient or having some other gene-controlled chemical ailment. In a few years their imitators filled their own laboratories with molds as unnatural as the most monstrous fruit flies. The coral fluffs of normal Neurospora are rare in the test tubes and Petri dishes. In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules. One horrible kind of mold grown in a moving liquid floats in bunches with limp limbs like soft, dead crabs...