1. What are nucleic acids?
What is the historic origin of
this name?

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and ,the nucleic acids,are the
molecules responsible for the hereditary
information that commands the
synthesisin living beings. The name
“”derives from the fact that they
were discovered (by the Swiss
biochemist Miescher, in 1869)
within the cell nucleus. In that time it
was not known that those sub
contained the hereditary information.