HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW DNA CAME ABOUT? THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF WHO DISCOVERED IT AND WHY!
Before DNA tests, before forensic science, before modern genetics, scientists did not even know what carried the instructions for life. Then, in 1869, a Swiss scientist found something extraordinary in the nucleus of cells.” Written by Anosike Chukwudike Victor Look at your hands, your face, your eyes, or even the way you resemble your parents. Somewhere inside almost every cell of your body is a molecule carrying instructions connected to the development and functioning of your body. That molecule is DNA—deoxyribonucleic acid. It contains biological information that is passed from parents to offspring and helps make each species unique. But DNA itself was not invented by a scientist. It existed in living organisms long before human beings knew what it was. Scientists discovered it gradually. The story began in the nineteenth century with a Swiss scientist working with something that, at first glance, seemed like an unlikely material for a historic discovery: pus collected from u...