A living body is made up of many genes. The qualities and traits of a person are determined by the genes in their body. The genes are a key factor for the development and growth of a body. This brings the need of the knowledge of the genetics. India has a history containing many scientists and their discoveries. Even in the field of science and biochemistry, India has made its position due to various scientists.<\/p>\n
Har Gobind Khorana<\/a>\u00a0was one among those scientists who belonged from India and got such achievements that would definitely make the nation proud. The youngest among the five children, Har Gobind Khorana was born to a very poor family. His birth date is said to be 9th<\/sup>\u00a0January, 1922 but it is not confirmed and is uncertain. He was born in a village named Raipur in West Pakistan.<\/p>\n Belonging to an educated family was one thing which added on to Har Gobind\u2019s career and life. His father wanted all his children to be educated. So, the primary education of Khorana was done in a village school. He joined D. A. V. High school in Multan. Later, he got a scholarship and he finished his graduation with science from\u00a0Punjab University<\/a>\u00a0in Lahore. Later, in 1945, he got the Master\u2019s degree from the same college.<\/p>\n H.G. Khorana\u2019s brilliance was not hidden from the government and he got another scholarship and he went to\u00a0University of Liverpool<\/a>. He got the doctorate degree from England. Later he joined Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich to get Post PhD degree. There, under the influence of his professor, Vladimir Prelog, Khorana\u2019s thinking and perspective towards science changed. The knowledge gained by Khorana was used by him to study about fungicides and insecticides.<\/p>\n H.G. Khorana started his working career by joining the University of\u00a0British Columbia university<\/a>\u00a0under Dr Gordon M Shrum.\u00a0Even though there was a lack of resources in the University, Khorana was allowed to research on whatever he wanted. He along with his colleagues started the research on nucleic acid and phosphate esters.<\/p>\n In 1960s, after joining University of Wisconsin, he started research on enzymes and found a chemical, called RNA which could translate the information about the genes in DNA. He explained about the composition of RNA which was represented by letters A, D, U and G. This was indeed one of his biggest achievements.<\/p>\n Khorana also found other facts about DNA. He explained that the DNA is made of nucleotides and he also showed the coding of these nucleotides in a DNA. Not only this, Khorana was the first person to create an artificial gene. He also created genes in a bacteria cell. He also studied about a protein found in the eye, rhodospin.<\/p>\n Har Gobind Khorana was one person because of whom the field of Genetic engineering came into being. He was honoured with\u00a0Nobel Prize<\/a>\u00a0in Physiology in 1968.<\/p>\n Har Gobind Khorana\u2019s major contributions and achievements<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n Khorana left the world in 2011 but in his lifetime he has helped the world by his great achievement on\u00a0DNA synthesis\u00a0<\/a>which is definitely going to bring new inventions in future.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tColumbiaUniversity<\/a> HAR GOBIND KHORANA: The Great Mind Behind DNA Synthesis A living body is made up of many genes. The qualities and traits of a person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[512,513,3,4,514,10,515,516,517,518,14,519],"class_list":["post-43982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientist-of-the-past-who-shaped-our-present-and-future","tag-columbiauniversity","tag-dnasynthesis","tag-gyanpro","tag-gyanpro-blogs","tag-hargobindkhorana","tag-indianscientist","tag-khoranaprogram","tag-louisegrosshorwitzprize","tag-nobelprize","tag-royalsociety","tag-sciencearticle","tag-university-of-wisconsin-madison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyanpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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