Genetic code was deciphered by chemically synthesizing nucleotides by

Watson and Crick

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Beadle and Tatum

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Nirenberg and Khorana

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Correns and Theiler

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The correct option is C Nirenberg and Khorana
Four nitrogen bases make triplet codon and each encodes one amino acid in 20 amino acids. the interpreting of the language of genetic was done by the M. W. Nirenberg and H. Khorana and provide the way for interpreting the sequence of the entire genome.

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