Multiple choice

Which of the following matches of ‘Nobel laureates and their work’ is incorrect?

  1. E.B. Lewis, E. Weischaus, C. Nusselein-Volhard : Genetic control of embryonic development

  2. Sydney Brenner, John E. Sulston , H. Robert Horitz : Genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death

  3. R. Holly, H.G. Khorana and M.W. Nirenberg : Genetic code and base sequence of t-RNA

  4. A. Korenberg and S. Ochoa : Operon model of gene control

  5. James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins : Double helix structure of DNA
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Explanation

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 was awarded jointly to Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA. P.Jacob , J.L. Monod and A.M. Lwoff jointly received Nobel prize in 1965 for operon model of gene control.

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