Gene control the production of enzyme was given by
A. E. L. Tatum
B. T. H. Morgan
C. A. E. Garrod
D. R. D. Kornberg
Answer: Option A
Solution (By Examveda Team)
Gene controls the production of enzymes given by E. L. Tatum.He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism.
Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed that these mutations caused changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways.

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