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Albrecht Kossel

Completing a Research

1880s
Germany

Kossel continued his previous work on the nucleic acids. During the period 1885 to 1901, he was able to isolate and name its five constituent organic compounds: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil, which are the molecular structure necessary in the formation of stable DNA and RNA molecules.


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