Who among the following won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for demonstrating how the nucleotides in nucleic acids control the synthesis of proteins?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-born biochemist working in the USA, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Khorana made RNA chains of known sequence in the laboratory and showed that the code is read in triplets of nucleotides (codons), each triplet standing for one amino acid.