Multiple choice

Who propounded the theory of split genes?

  1. Hargobind Khurana

  2. Carl Von Linne

  3. RJ Roberts and P.A Sharp

  4. Robert Brown
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Explanation

Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp discovered split genes (genes containing introns) in 1977 through their research on adenovirus. They showed that genes could be discontinuous, with non-coding regions (introns) removed during RNA processing. This breakthrough earned them the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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