In the 1940s, proteins were thought to be the more likely molecules to house genetic information.What was the primary reason that DNA was not originally believed to be the genetic material?

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DNA was considered too simple due to its composition of only four types of nucleotides, which seemed insufficient to encode the complex information required for life's diversity, unlike proteins which have 20 different amino acids.

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