To Prove That DNA Is the Transforming Substance, Avery, MacLeod

question 110

Multiple Choice

To prove that DNA is the transforming substance, Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty demonstrated that DNA could transform nonvirulent strains of pneumococcus.The definitive evidence for transformation was

• A) enzymes that destroy proteins also destroy transforming activity.
• B) the transformed R bacteria passed on the virulence trait to daughter cells.
• C) enzymes that destroy complex carbohydrates also destroy transforming activity.
• D) the transforming activity is destroyed by boiling.
• E) other strains of bacteria also can be transformed successfully.

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