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Whose experiments cracked the DNA and discovered unequivocally that a genetic code is a "triplet"?

  1. A
    Hershey and Chase
  2. B
    Morgan and Sturtevant
  3. C
    Beadle and Tatum
  4. D
    Nirenberg and Mathaei

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Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Mathaei used a cell-free system to decipher the genetic code. Their work, along with that of Har Gobind Khorana, established that codons are triplets of nucleotides.

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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

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