History of genetics of the fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster". In 1928, Frederick Griffith showed that genes could be transferred. In what is now known as Griffith's experiment, injections into a mouse of a deadly strain of bacteria that had been heat-killed transferred genetic information to a safe strain of the same bacteria, killing the mouse. A series of subsequent discoveries led to the realization decades later that the genetic material is made of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). In 1941, George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum showed that mutations in genes caused errors in specific steps in metabolic pathways. This showed that specific genes
Benzenesulfonic acid sometimes called alkaline fusion, initially affords the phenoxide salt: The process has been largely displaced by the Hock process, which generates less waste. Benzensulfonic acid is commonly used as the active ingredient in laundry detergent used in clothes washing machines. Benzenesulfonic acid is often used to convert to other specialty chemicals. A variety of pharmaceutical drugs are prepared as benzenesulfonate salts and are known as besilates (INN) or besylates (USAN). In a diluted form, it is also used as a polymer remover stripping agent. Benzenesulfonic acid Benzenesulfonic acid (conjugate base benzenesulfonate) is an organosulfur compound with the formula CHOS. It