A series of eight programmes on how the most fundamental of the biological sciences is being used in a new technology 7: Microbes and Molecules by DR. D. J. COVE
University of Cambridge
Some of the most important advances in our understanding of the way hereditary information is used has come from work on microorganisms. That these insights will be of use to man in breeding animals and plants is distinctly feasible--they may even, some day, show the way to correct hereditary abnormalities in man.