Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment
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avery-macleod-mccarty-experiment-253-10707882
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Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment
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The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty that, in 1944, reported that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it was proteins that served the function of carrying genetic information. It was the culmination of research in the 1930s and early 20th century at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to purify and characterize the "transforming pr
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1944 microbiology experiment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery%E2%80%93MacLeod%E2%80%93McCarty_experiment
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2024-04-24T14:06:19Z
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