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5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance

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Whose experiments cracked the $DNA$ and discovered unequivocally that a genetic code is a “triplet”?

A

Hershey and Chase

B

Morgan and Sturtevant

C

Beadle and Tatum

D

Nirenberg and Mathaei

(AIPMT-2009)

Solution

(d) : Genetic code was deciphered in $1960’s$ by Crick, Ochoa, Nirenberg, Mathaei and Khorana.

Std 12

Biology

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