NOUN
- French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)
How To Use Jacques Monod In A Sentence
- However, a few heretics survived - and among them Jacques Monod, who played a decisive role in my decision to return to the problem of lysogeny. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
- In 1958 the remarkable analogy revealed by genetic analysis of lysogeny and that of the induced biosynthesis of ß-galactosidase led François Jacob, with Jacques Monod, to study the mechanisms responsible for the transfer of genetic information as well as the regulatory pathways which, in the bacterial cell, adjust the activity and synthesis of macromolecules. François Jacob - Biography