Lec 12 MIT 7 014 Introductory Biology Spring 2005

Description: scientists had then to crack the code. And there were two scientists who played a really big role. One was Marshall Nirenberg who was at NIH and is, in fact, still at NIH. And the other was a scientist who's on the same floor as me at MIT, Gobin Khorana. And they used two different approaches, but between these two approaches the genetic code was cracked. And what Nirenberg did was to take a protein synthesizing -- -- extract that he knew needed RNA in order to work. So that wasn't a ...