Label:
Oswald Avery
Description:
In 1944, Avery and MacLeod, and McCarty purified the transforming principle of Fred Griffith's earlier experiment with pneumocossus bacteria. By a process of elimination, these scientists showed that DNA was the factor that caused genetic transformation. DNA is the molecule of inheritance.
Biological elements:
enzymes, pneumocossus bacteria, detergent
Concepts precesses:
transformation of DNA
Tools & methods :
enzymes, pneumocossus bacteria, detergent