Question

what is the contribution of severo ochoa in the formation of genetic code ? plz explain in simple language ..

Answer 1

Severo Ochoa, (born Sept. 24, 1905, Luarca, Spain—died Nov. 1, 1993, Madrid), biochemist and molecular biologist who received (with the American biochemist Arthur Kornberg) the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery of an enzyme in bacteria that enabled him to synthesize ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Answer 2

In 1955, Ochoa isolated RNA polymerase, the enzyme that copies molecules of RNA from DNA. He made the first synthetic RNA molecules.

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