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Syllabus for BZ 342 Genetics 2007

Identification of Griffiths transforming principle

1931 Henry Dawson - Repeats Griffith's Experiments and develops assay that does not require mice.
1933 Lional Allway - Demonstrated that a soluble extract of IIS cells would transform IIR cells.

1944 Avery, MacLeod and McCarty - Identified Griffith's Transforming Principle. CD


Eliminate Polysaccharides -->Transformation Occurs
Eliminate Lipids -->Transformation Occurs
Eliminater RNA -->Transformation Occurs
Eliminate Protein -->Transformation Occurs
Eliminate DNA -->Transformation Does Not Occurs:

 

Therefore DNA is the Transforming Principle Summary.

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Text: Genetics: A conceptural ApproachBenjamin A Pierce

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by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
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