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6 unusual facts about Jacques Monod


Diauxic growth curve

The theory behind the diauxic growth curve stems from Jacques Monod's Ph.D. research in 1940.

Diauxie

Diauxie is a Greek word coined by Jacques Monod to mean two growth phases.

Jacques Monod discovered diauxic growth in 1941 during his experiments with Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.

Jacques Monod

Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, ISBN 0-394-46615-2

Lac repressor

These experiments confirmed the mechanism of the lac operon, earlier proposed by Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob.

Trp operon

Discovered in 1953 by Jacques Monod and colleagues, the trp operon in E. coli was the first repressible operon to be discovered.


Indeterminism

Indeterminism has been promoted by the French biologist Jacques Monod's essay "Chance and Necessity".


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