Who first discovered nucleic acid?

🔑Key Points:
Friedrich Miescher discovered nucleic acid.
The Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher discovered nucleic acids (DNA) in 1868.
He also raised the idea that they could be involved in heredity.
Friedrich Miescher isolated a new compound from the nuclei of white blood cells.
This compound was neither a protein nor lipid nor a carbohydrate.

🛑Important Points:
In 1889 Richard Altmann creates the term nucleic acid.
The term nucleic acid is the overall name for DNA and RNA.
In 1953 Watson and Crick presented the structure of DNA.