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Which discovery is attributed to Phoebus Levene?
extraction and observation of DNA
identification of ribose and deoxyribose
recognition of RNA as DNA’s messenger
construction of an accurate DNA model

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Identification of ribose and deoxyribose.

Levene characterized the sugar and phosphate components of nucleotides and proposed the tetranucleotide idea (which turned out to be incorrect), but he did not build a DNA model or recognize DNA as the genetic messenger.