Question 1
Much has been learned about the relationship between genes and gene products through the use of the mold Neurospora. What specific attributes make Neurospora a good organism for such studies?Question 2
Nutritional mutants in Neurospora can be "cured" by treating the medium with substances in the defective metabolic pathway. What determines whether the mutant strain (auxotroph) is "cured" by a particular substance?Answer 1
knowledge of its biochemistry, its haploid ascospores, relative ease of isolating nutritional mutationsAnswer 2
The substance needs to be added after the metabolic block in the biochemical pathway.