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Define nucleic acids

Define nucleic acids in brief? Describe the historic origin of this name?

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RNA and DNA, the nucleic acids, are the molecules accountable for the hereditary information which commands the protein synthesis in living-beings. The term “nucleic” derives from the fact that they were introduced (by the Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher, in the year1869) in the cell nucleus. In that time it was not recognized that such substances contained the hereditary information.

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