Experiments on DNA – Watson and Crick, Griffith, Chargaff, Hershey and Chase, Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod
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Many individuals believe that in the 1950s, American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA. In actuality, this is not true. DNA was discovered by the Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher in the late 1860s. Then, in the decades that followed Miescher’s discovery, other scientists, notably Phoebus Levene and Erwin Chargaff, conducted a … Read more