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Fungus

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Fungus (plural: fungi); any of a major group of organisms sometimes classified as plants without chlorophyll. This group includes mushrooms, mildews, molds and yeasts. Fungi produce spores, and may be parasites or saprophytes living, or free.

View Dr Chromo's lecture on 'Neurospora crassa'.

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• Beadle, George Wells: ...they began the study of the development of eye pigment in Drosophila which later led to the work on the biochemistry of the genetics of the fungus Neurospora for which Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum were together awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
• Tatum, Edward Laurie: ...when he and Beadle decided to give up their work on Drosophila and to work instead with the fungus Neurospora crassa, it was Tatum who discovered that biotin was necessary for the successful cultivation of this fungus on simple inorganic media and thus provided these two workers with the genetic material that they needed for the work which gained them, together with Joshua Lederberg, the Nobel Prize.

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