What Was the Most Significant Conclusion of Griffithʹs Experiments with Pneumonia

question 52

Multiple Choice

What was the most significant conclusion of Griffithʹs experiments with pneumonia in mice?

• A) Mice exposed to the S-strain bacterium became resistant to the R-strain bacterium.
• B) S-strain bacteria can cause pneumonia.
• C) Heat destroys the hereditary material.
• D) There is a substance present in dead bacteria that can cause a heritable change in living bacteria.
• E) The genetic material was definitively proven to be DNA.

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