jan 1, 1965 - Marshall Nirenberg is the first person to sequence the bases in each codon
Description:
He focused his research on nucleic acids and protein synthesis to try to figure out life's code. He eventually discovered the first triplet, which is a sequence of three bases of DNA that codes for one of the twenty amino acids that make up proteins.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1965
Now
~ 59 years ago
