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a. Name the Indian scientist who participated in the group which established genetic code.
b. Mention the other scientists and their contribution to genetic code

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a. Hargobind Khorana
b. Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley are the other scientists. Their team established that the mother of all codes, the biological language common to all living organisms is spelled out in three letter words, each set of three nucleotides codes for a specific aminoacid. They got the Nobel Prize for this work in medicine and physiology
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