Question

Who accidentally discovered DNA in the 1860s?
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James Watson and Francis Crick
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Rosalind Franklin
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Oswald Avery
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Friedrich Miescher

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Friedrich Miescher accidentally discovered DNA in the 1860s. He identified a substance that he called "nuclein" in the nuclei of white blood cells, which later became known as DNA.