jan 1, 1968 - 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
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Marshall Nirenberg &H. Gobind Khorana
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jan 1, 1968
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~ 57 years ago