The 1944 work of Avery, MacLeod and McCarty showed that which molecule causes bacterial transformation?
ALipid droplets
BProtein coats
CRNA molecules
DDNA molecules
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. DNA molecules
They purified the transforming principle and showed it was DNA, not protein as widely believed.
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