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"In describing genetic mechanisms, there is a choice between being inexact and incomprehensible".
-J. Monod






            Jacques Monod was quoted having described genetic mechanisms thus by Professor Sven Gard, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Royal Caroline Institute when giving his speech before Professors Jacob, Lwoff and Monod were to receive the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of enzyme and virus synthesis."  He said further, that he would try to be as inexact as his conscience would allow.  In the following pages, we shall be trying the same. 




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