Word: meselson
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Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot professor of the natural sciences, has won the annual Thomas Hunt Morgan medal of the Genetics Society of America and will be featured in next month's issue of Genetics...
...surprised," Meselson said, upon receiving the letter informing him that he had been chosen for the prize. "It feels very nice. The other people who have received this award are people I have admired very much and it is nice to be closer to their tradition...
...Meselson, a famed Harvard biologist, is currently researching asexual reproduction and the reason for the existence...
...Meselson is studying a species of microscopic all-female pond dwellers called the bdellois rotifers. The rotifers live without sex and have no males, sperm or fertilization among their species...
...after studying the rotifers, Meselson developed the idea of a silent mutation, a change in genes that has no effect on an organism...