OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
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Question
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Scientists who first determined that DNA is the genetic material were led by
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Oswald Avery.
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Erwin Chargaff.
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James Watson.
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Francis Crick.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty helped demonstrate the role of DNA as the carrier of genetic information by working with the bacterium? that causes pneumonia?, Streptococcus? pneumoniae.
Detailed explanation-2: -His research career culminated in 1944, when, with McCarty and MacLeod, Avery published his seminal paper proving that the “transforming principle, ‘’ or hereditary material, was DNA and not protein as most scientists had assumed.
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