Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Question - 531

Shown are some members of a famous club. Which club?

Answer: The RNA tie club - 20 members one for each amino acid with an additional four honorary members representing each nucleotide. The club's stated aim was to solve for the RNA structure and to understand how it builds proteins. Kamal Rathi, Matti Tapaninen, Mekie, anon, Rajeev, Ramki, Ramji, Arvind, Raghu and Hirak got it. Well done.

10 comments:

Kamal Rathi said...

Alexander Rich, front row, left, was a member of the RNA Tie Club, which had 20 members, one representing each amino acid. Rich is joined in this 1955 photo by biophysicist James Watson (front row, right), chemist Leslie Orgel (back row, right) and molecular biologist Francis Crick. Watson and Crick together discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953.

matti tapaninen said...

RNA tie club

mekie said...

RNA tie club

Anonymous said...

RNA TIE CLUB

rajeev said...

nice rna ties

Ramki said...

Club's name I can't seem to remember.. but there's Watson and Crick in the pic.. the team that proposed the double helical structure of the DNA

Unknown said...

RNA Tie Club

Arvind said...

RNA Tie club

Raghu said...

RNA tie club

Hirak Parikh said...

RNA Tie Club

http://www.ambion.com/main/tieclub/flash/print_form/story_2.html