NEET2020ZoologyMolecular Basis of InheritanceActual
The term 'Nuclein' for the genetic material was used by:
Options
- AFranklin
- BMeischer
- CChargaff
- DMendel
Correct answer
B. Meischer
Step-by-step 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.