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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
South African Nobel prize awardee, Sydney Brenner passed away at the age of 92 in Singapore recently, he belongs to which field?
A
Economist
B
Physicist
C
Biologist
D
Psychologist
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Brenner discovered fundamental steps in how cells use DNA to make the proteins that enable life. He found that sequences of three DNA bases code for the amino acids that form proteins. And he discovered that RNA molecules carry that information to ribosomes, the cellular machines that synthesize proteins.

Detailed explanation-2: -Brenner shared in the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for deciphering the genetics of programmed cell death and animal development, including how the nervous system forms.

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