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Was Frederick Sanger a biochemist from England?

  • Yes

  • No

  • He was from Scotland

  • He was from Wales

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Frederick Sanger was a biochemist from England who won two Nobel Prizes for his work on the structure of DNA. He was born in Rendcomb, England, in 1918. He studied at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a PhD in biochemistry in 1943. Sanger's early research focused on the structure of proteins. In 1953, he published a paper that described the first complete sequence of a protein, insulin.
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