Friedrich Miescher is credited with

a. proposing DNA as the hereditary material.
b. determining that proteins are the physical
basis of inheritance.
c. defining the laws of inheritance.
d. discovering DNA.
e. determining that proteins are composed of
unlimited combinations of twenty amino
acids.


D

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