University of Missouri, Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract
Writing 18 years ago, DR. STADLER pointed out that because of limitations in the knowledge and definition of the gene, questions about undetermined properties of the gene--the nature of the unit of reproduction, the unit of action of the "gene--string," the indivisible unit of the gene, the boundaries of a gene--were all still unanswerable. But these were the "all-important questions that we hope ultimately to answer by the ... development of new experimental operations."DAVID SCHLESSINGER, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
