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From discovering to understanding
Author(s) -
Dahm Ralf
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.14
Subject(s) - fell , heredity , function (biology) , genealogy , biology , environmental ethics , philosophy , history , evolutionary biology , genetics , paleontology
Friedrich Miescher, the Swiss scientist who discovered DNA in 1869, already understood a surprising amount about its function. Sadly, as Ralf Dahm explains, he fell short of grasping the role of DNA in heredity because he was held back by established theories of the time.