Experiment
History
Results
100

The main molecule(s) being studied.

What are RNA and amino acids?

100

The year the experiment was conducted.

When is 1964?

100

The main conclusion from the experiment regarding the hypothesis.

What is a supported hypothesis and support for 3-mer codons?

200

The names of the scientists who conducted the experiment.

Who are Nirenberg and Leder?

200

The year RNA's role in coding for proteins was discovered.

When is 1961?

200

The main results of the experiment.

What is the discovery of which proteins all 64 RNA triplets code for?
300

The dependent variable.

What is the count of radiolabeled amino acids in the filter?

300

The scientists who initially discovered RNA's role in protein synthesis before Nirenberg and Leder's experiment.

Who are Nirenberg and Matthaeis? 

300

The nickname for Nirenberg and Leder's results.

What is "The Rosetta Stone"?
400

The word for growth outside of an organism.

What is in vitro?

400

The name of the experiment discovering RNA's role in protein synthesis that led directly to Nirenberg and Leder's experiment.

What is the "poly-U" experiment?

400

One finding that followed Nirenberg and Leder's findings.

What is... gene fragmentation/RNA splicing and editing/HIV protein discoveries?