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who first identified dna?
rosalind franklin
erwin chargaff
friedrich miescher
james watson
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Friedrich Miescher was the first to identify DNA. He isolated a substance from the nuclei of white blood cells in 1869 and named it "nuclein" (which is now known as DNA). Rosalind Franklin is known for her work on the X - ray crystallography of DNA. Erwin Chargaff discovered the base - pairing rules (Chargaff's rules). James Watson, along with Francis Crick, proposed the double - helix structure of DNA.
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