Har Gobind Khorana shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1968 with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley. For which of the following was the prize given?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Cracking the genetic code
NCERT (2026-27 edition):
Har Gobind Khorana – “…It was at Cambridge, U.K. that he got interested in both proteins and nucleic acids. Dr Khorana shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1968 with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley for cracking the genetic code.”