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Who synthesized the first fully artificial gene?

  1. Hargobind Khurana

  2. Robert W. Holley

  3. Jagdish Chandra Bose

  4. Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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Hargobind Khorana (spelled Khurana in the question) synthesized the first fully artificial gene in 1970, for which he won the Nobel Prize. Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg were also Nobel laureates for related work on genetic code, while Jagdish Chandra Bose was a physicist/biologist from an earlier era.

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