DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher.
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Miescher isolated a substance he called “nuclein” from white blood cells, which later became recognized as DNA. It took decades—and breakthroughs like the double-helix model in 1953—for DNA’s role in heredity to be fully understood.
🤯 "DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. Humanity stumbled onto its own instruction manual."