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Who first identified DNA?

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Friedrich Miescher

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In 1869, Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher first identified what he called "nuclein" in the nuclei of human white blood cells, which we know today as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

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DNA themselves discovered DNA

JK

The molecule now known as DNA was first identified in the 1860s by a Swiss chemist called Johann Friedrich Miescher
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