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DNA was first identified by:


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Friedrich Miescher

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James Watson

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Rosalin Franklin

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Maurice Wilkins

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Solution

The correct option is A

Friedrich Miescher


In the year 1869, while carrying out experiments on white blood cells, Friedrich Miescher identified a substance that had properties different from those of proteins. He decided to call it ‘nuclein’, which later came to be known as DNA.


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