NEET Biology question

Whose experiments established that the genetic code is a triplet?

(A)Nirenberg and MatthaeiCorrect
(B)Hershey and Chase
(C)Morgan and Sturtevant
(D)Beadle and Tatum

Answer: (A)

Solution

Nirenberg and Matthaei's poly-U cell-free translation experiment, which produced a polyphenylalanine chain, provided key experimental evidence that a triplet of bases (UUU) specifies one amino acid, helping crack the triplet nature of the

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