What was Friedrich Miescher's contribution to the discovery of the genetic code?

Friedrich Miescher isolated a substance he called “nuclein” from the nuclei of white blood cells in the 1860s; it was later identified as DNA. He did not determine how DNA bases pair or create a model or photograph of DNA’s structure. Therefore, the correct choice is “He extracted and observed DNA from white blood cells.”

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