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Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg
United States geneticist Joshua Lederberg won the 1958 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Lederberg showed that viruses can transmit genetic material from one bacterial cell to another, thus changing the heredity of their hosts.
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Bacteriophage; Lederberg, Joshua
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