5.1 Study Guide Flashcards
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What was Fredrick Griffith Researching? What did he find?
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pneumonia
the process of on a strand of bacteria acquiring a “factor” from another bacteria is called transformation
2
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What did Avery, MacLeod, and McCarthy want to determine?
What did they find?
A
If a protein or DNA was the transforming factor and responsible for heredity.
They found that transformation occurred without proteins and without RNA, but that transformation did not occur without DNA; therefore, DNA is the transforming molecule
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