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A German Chemist, Friedrich Miescher, discovered DNA in 1869, only four years after Mendel's work was published. Miescher extracted a white substance from the nuclei of human cells and fish sperm. he called this substance "nuclein" because it seemed to be specifically associated with the nucleus.

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