Monod

[ maw-noh ]

noun

1. Jacques [zhahk], 1910–76, French chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.

Monod

/ mô-nō′ /

1. French biochemist who, with François Jacob, proposed the existence of messenger RNA. Monod and Jacob also studied how genes control cellular activity by directing the synthesis of proteins.

Example Sentences

Starting in the late 1990s, Baker—who has co-founded companies in this space including Cyrus, Monod and Arzeda —oversaw the development of Rosetta, a foundational software suite for predicting and manipulating protein structures.

From Scientific American

At the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art, he flanks a traditional mask from Senegal’s Diola people with ones of his making that mix forms from different regions and unconventional materials like denim.

From New York Times

Domesticated donkeys are easier to keep in captivity as they raise offspring, says Thierry Grange, a geneticist who led the research with Geigl and is also at the Jacques Monod Institute.

From Science Magazine

The relentless ogive of growth fascinated Jacques Monod, the French biologist.

From Literature

In experiments with Escherichia coli, Jacob and Monod showed that the gene networks in those bacteria can alter the production of certain enzymes depending on the type of food available.

From Science Magazine