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Molecular cell biology

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Explain how DNA was established as the molecule that carries inherited info?

Author: Rhianna Briant



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- In the 1920’s Fred Griffith reported that a “heat-killed extract” from pathogenic bacteria could convert harmless ones to pathogenic ones. - Purified DNA was shown to produce the same effect. Genetic properties can be transferred from one bacterial strain to another by extracting DNA from the first strain and adding to another strain (Transformation)


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