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Cracking the Code

Cracking the Code

The National Institutes of Health biochemist Marshall Nirenberg figured out that triplets of DNA bases code for specific amino acids in 1961, 8 years after James Watson and Francis Crick unraveled DNA's helical structure. This new online exhibit chronicles the race to break the code by Nirenberg, who later won the Nobel Prize.
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Material Type:
Case Study
Date Added to MERLOT:
August 9, 2004
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 12, 2018
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Submitter:
Scott Cooper
Primary Audience:
College General Ed
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Website
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Language:
English
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