Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize for the major breakthrough in interpreting the genetic code and analyzing its function in protein synthesis?
Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize for the major breakthrough in interpreting the genetic code and analyzing its function in protein synthesis?
Solution
✅ Correct Option: 4
Har Gobind Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing how the nucleotide sequence of nucleic acids carries the genetic code that controls protein synthesis. Banerjee won in Economics, Chandrasekhar in Physics, and Ramakrishnan in Chemistry for ribosome structure, not for interpreting the code itself.
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