Whose experiments cracked DNA and discovered triplet nature of genetic code?

Beadle and Tatum

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Hershey and Chase

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Nirenberg and Matthaei

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The correct option is D Nirenberg and Matthaei
Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich J. Matthaei were the first to reveal the nature of a codon in 1961. So the correct option is ' Nirenberg and Matthaei'.

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