Cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) are enzymes involved with the control of mitosis; Drs. Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for their work on Cdks. What organism was used to study these enzymes?
a) Mus musculus
b) Escherichia coli
c) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
d) Arabidopsis thaliana