• Question: Who discovered DNA?

    Asked by The Milky Bar Kid MINUS to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 20 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Natt Day

      Natt Day answered on 20 Jun 2015:

      Johannes Friedrich Miescher was the first scientist to discover DNA. He found it through isolating the cell brain (nucleus) from the white blood cells. He suggested that the DNA– which he called Nuclein at this time– was responsible for genetic inheritance.

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