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Based on material delivered in a symposium onThe Relation of Genetics to Biochemistry at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, Cal., March 30, 1949.

This paper is in the hands of the editor since June 16th, 1949.

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Davis, B.D. Studies on nutritionally deficient bacterial mutants isolated by means of penicillin. Experientia 6, 41–50 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02174810

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