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5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance
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The possibility of three letter genetic code was pointed out by
A
Khorana
B
Gamow
C
Holley
D
Nirenberg
Solution
(d) Nirenberg and Matthaei used artificially synthesized $mRNA$ in a cell free system. When they added a synthetic $mRNA$ consisting of only one base uracil,
the protein synthesized consisted only of one amino acid phenylalanine.
It suggests that triplet $UUU$ codes for the amino acid phenyl alanine.
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