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Whose experiments cracked the DNA and discobered unequivocally that a genetic code is a "triplet" :-

A

Nirenberg and mathaei

B

Hershey and Chase

C

Morgan and Sturtevant

D

Beadle and Tatum

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A
In 1961 Marshall W. Nirenberg and Heirrich Matthaei on May 15, 1961 discovered the first triplet – a sequence of three bases of DNA that codes for one of 20 amino acids.
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