Chemical basis of heredity Flashcards

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In 1928, Griffith added heat - killed ____ to live ____ and found that some of the ____ pneumococci were transformed to the ____, virulent type.

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smooth bacteria; rough bacteria; rough; smooth

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Avery, MacLeod & McCarty repeated the Griffith experiment in 1944 & showed that ____ was the transforming agent.

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nucleic acid

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It culminated in the discovery, by Watson, Crick, Franklin & Wilkins, of the ____ structure for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953.

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double - helical

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