Which important property of DNA did Friedrich Miescher discover?
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Friedrich Miescher first discovered DNA as a biomolecule. He isolated nuclein in which DNA is wrapped around cellular proteins such as Histones. Many years after Miescher's discovery it was proved that DNA is the hereditary material in cells.
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Which important property of dna did friedrich miescher discover?
a. it is made partly of sugar molecules.
b. it has a double-helix structure.
c. it is three-dimensional.
d. it is found in the nucleus of a cell.
ANSWER: d. it is found in the nucleus of a cell.
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- Friedrich Miescher was a well-known biologist and was the 1st to identify the molecule, in 1869, which today we all know as as DNA.
- DNA was discovered Miescher that isolated a compound from the white blood cells' nuclei. This compound was neither a lipid, nor a carbohydrate, nor a a protein - it was a novel type of biological molecule.
- Miescher named this discovery "nuclein," since he had isolated it from the cells' nuclei. Later it was called DNA
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