Which observation from Griffith's experiment with Streptococcus pneumoniae provided the strongest evidence for the existence of a 'transforming principle'?
Live non-virulent bacteria did not cause disease in mice.
Heat-killed virulent bacteria did not cause disease in mice.
Live virulent bacteria caused disease in mice.
Heat-killed virulent bacteria, when mixed with live non-virulent bacteria, caused the latter to become virulent.
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Which experiment definitively proved that DNA, and not protein, carries genetic information?
Griffith's transformation experiment
Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's experiment
Meselson and Stahl's DNA replication experiment
Hershey and Chase's bacteriophage experiment
The definitive evidence establishing DNA as the genetic material was derived from the experiments of:
James Watson and Francis Crick
Frederick Griffith
Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
If Hershey and Chase had found radioactive sulfur () inside the bacteria instead of radioactive phosphorus (), what would have been the conclusion of their experiment?
DNA is the genetic material.
Protein is the genetic material.
Both DNA and protein are the genetic material.
Neither DNA nor protein is the genetic material.
In Hershey and Chase's experiment, what was the key observation that supported DNA as the genetic material?
Radioactive sulfur () was found inside the bacteria.
Radioactive phosphorus () remained outside the bacteria.
Both radioactive sulfur () and phosphorus () were found inside the bacteria.
Radioactive phosphorus () was found inside the bacteria.
