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(d) Nirenberg and Matthaei used artificially synthesized $mRNA$ in a cell free system. When they added a synthetic $mRNA$ consisting of only one base

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(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.

The possibility of three letter genetic code was pointed out by

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