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Who found DNA first?


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DNA:

  1. DNA or Deoxyribose nucleic acid was discovered by Fredrich Mischer in 1869.
  2. He observed it in the nuclei of human WBCs and named it nuclein.
  3. The DNA is made up of units of biological building blocks called nucleotides.
  4. DNA is a vitally important molecule for not only humans but for most other organisms as well.
  5. DNA contains our hereditary material and it is carried out in the next generation.
  6. The complete set of your DNA is called your genome.

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