Which of the Following Investigators Was/were Responsible for the Following

question 70

Multiple Choice

Which of the following investigators was/were responsible for the following discovery?
Chemicals from heat-killed S cells were purified. The chemicals were tested for the ability to transform live R cells. The transforming agent was found to be DNA.

• A)Frederick Griffith
• B)Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
• C)Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, and Colin MacLeod
• D)Erwin Chargaff
• E)Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

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