GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INVENTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who synthesized the first wholly artificial gene?
A
Hargobind Khorana
B
J.J. Thompson
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
Meghnad Saha
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Synthesis of the first complete gene, a yeast tRNA, was demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana and coworkers in 1972.

Detailed explanation-2: -Har Gobind Khorana, the chemist who cracked DNA’s code and made the first artificial gene is known as father of artificial genetics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of “the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid” together with Severo Ochoa of New York University. Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist.

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