TheHistoryofDNA-WesternOregonUniversity.pptVIP

The History of DNA Early Work Friedrich Miescher, 1869, first isolates a substance from the nucleus of cells that he calls “nuclein.” His student, Richard Altmann, calls the substance “nucleic acid.” Biochemists identify two types of nucleic acids, later called RNA and DNA. In 1929, Phoebus Levine at the Rockefeller center identifies the four bases of DNA. What Does DNA Do? Though early researchers knew that DNA was found in chromosomes, they doubted that it was the hereditary material. There were only four bases. How could for bases code for all sorts of proteins? Some researchers, including