Gujarati
5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance
normal

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.

Standard 12
Biology

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