Genetic Mapping Experiments Performed by Seymour Benzer on RII Mutants

question 16

True/False

Genetic mapping experiments performed by Seymour Benzer on rII mutants in the T4 phage showed that the gene is indivisible by the process of mutation and recombination.

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