NEET 2025 · Class 12

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Who proposed that the genetic code for amino acids should be made up of three nucleotides?

  1. (A)Jacque Monod
  2. (B)Franklin Stahl
  3. (C)George Gamow
  4. (D)Francis Crick

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It was George Gamow, a physicist, who argued that since there are only 4 bases and if they have to code for 20 amino acids, the code should constitute a combination of bases.

Chapter
Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Section
5.6 GENETIC CODE
Page
16
Words matched
55 of 55

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states 'It was George Gamow... who argued that... the code should be made up of three nucleotides', which directly matches the MCQ's specific fact about who proposed the triplet genetic code.

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