DNA
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
- Contains two strands of nucleotides arranged in a double helix structure.
- In cells DNA is organised into long structures call chromosomes.
- Used primarily for long term storage of genetic information.
- DNA was first isolated by Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in 1869.
- The double helix structure was suggested by James Watson and Francis crick in 1953 along with Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for this discovery in 1962.
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