The term 'Nuclein' for the genetic material was used by:

The term 'Nuclein' for the genetic material was used by:
  1. Franklin
  2. Meischer
  3. Chargaff
  4. Mendel

Solution

Friedrich Meischer, a Swiss biochemist was first to isolate nucleic acids from the nucleus of pus cells in 1869. He called it nuclein. Richard Altmann coined the term ‘Nucleic acid’ in 1889.

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