1 ene 1968 año - Marshall Nirenberg &
H. Gobind Khorana
(1968-year of Nobel Prize)
-Nirenberg discovered the first
triplet/codon
-codon: a sequence of three
bases that codes for one of
20 amino acids
-used test tube techniques
for experiments
-Khorana demonstrated the
role of nucleotides in protein
synthesis
-both cracked the genetic code