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DNA was first discovered by

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Beadle and Tatum

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Watson and Crick

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C

Friedrich Miescher

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Kornberg

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Solution

The correct option is B Friedrich Miescher
Friedrich Miescher first isolated nucleic acids from pus cells in discarded surgical bands. The acidic substance that Miescher isolated was called as nuclein. It was, later on, showed to be DNA.
So, the correct answer is option C.

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