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I was doing this question for my year 12 Biology practical assignments...

German biochemist Johann Friedrich Meicher found nucleic acids were made of a sugar, phosphoric acid and several nitrogen-containing bases. Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose (DNA and RNA)

Russian scientist Pheobus Levene discovered the order of the nucleotide components (phosphate - sugar - base). He did this by breaking down nucleic acid in yeast.

there are many other people as well like Rosalind Franklin or Maurice Wilkins

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