A documentation of an experiment which successfully analysed the genetic code of a mutant virus. Dr Norton Zinder and his colleagues at Rockefeller University, New York City, are shown as they separate the mutant viruses from non-mutants, grow new generations of the mutants, extract the mutants’ genetic materials, and test whether or not this material will manufacture a certain protein known as the coat protein.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
013486
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Genetics - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical genetics
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine, Experimental
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Viral genetics
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Virus diseases
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Genetic engineering - experiments
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Genetics - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Mutation (Biology)
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Proteins - Synthesis
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - Experiments
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)