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Who came up with the idea of “adapter molecule”?(a) James Watson(b) Francis Crick(c) Gregor Mendel(d) Charles DarwinThe question was asked in an interview for internship.My query is from tRNA-Adapter Molecule topic in chapter Molecular Basis of Inheritance of Biology – Class 12

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Correct answer is (b) FRANCIS Crick

The explanation is: Amino acids do not have any structural specialties to read a CODE. Francis Crick came up with an IDEOLOGY that an adapter molecule will be PRESENT. This adapter molecule will be capable of both reading the code and ALSO on binding itself to the specific amino acid.



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