The Untold History of DNA

Watson and Crick

His discovery led to the name change from Thymus Nucleic Acid to Desoxy-Ribose Nucleic Acid (Frixione & Ruiz-Zamarripa, 2019).

Levene discovered Ribose, the sugar component of DNA that he referred to at the time as d-ribose (Frixione & Ruiz- Zamarripa, 2019).

Phoebus Levene

Renamed Nuclein to Nucleic Acid after Albrecht Kossel's discovery that nucleic acids are the bases that make up what is now called DNA (Aliouche, 2019).

I shall call it Nuclein!

FRIEDRICH MIESCHER

Due to the presence inside the nucleus, Miescher called it Nuclein (Dahm, 2004).

Noticed a substance precipitated when an acid was added to the solution. He called his substance Nuclein (Dahm, 2004).

Observed leucocytes from the pus on fresh surgical bandages (Dahm, 2004).

Aliouche, H. (May 1, 2019). History of DNA research: Scientific pioneers & their discoveries. News Medical. Retrieved from https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/History-of-DNA-Research-Scientific-Pioneers-Their-Discoveries.aspx Dahm, R. (2004). Friedrick Miescher and the discovery of DNA. Developmental Biology. 278, 274-288. Frixione, E., & Ruiz-Zamarripa, L. (2019). The “scientific catastrophe” in nucleic acids research that boosted molecular biology. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294, 2249-2255.

Started using deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A) in their publications on the double helix structure of DNA (Aliouche, 2019).

Levene discovered DNA found from thymus (now called Thymine) after Kossel's discovery (Frixione & Ruiz-Zamarripa, 2019).

Richard Altmann

Watson and Crick

Friedrich Miescher

Phoebus Levene

Phoebus Levene

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References

"Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid"

"Desoxy-Ribsose Nucleic Acid"

"Thymus Nucleic Acid"

"Nucleic Acid"

"Nuclein"

How the term "Dexyribose Nucleic Acid" came to be

The Untold History of DNA