Identifying the Substance of a Gene

In the early 1900s, most scientists thought it was _____________ that carried traits form parent to offspring. 

• Carbohydrates
• Lipids
• Proteins
• DNA

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This scientist(s) found a "transforming principle" that changed harmless bacteria into harmful bacteria

• Mendel
• Avery
• Chargraff
• Griffith

This scientist(s) destroyed the Protein, RNA and DNA of S-strain pneumonia cells to determine the "transforming principle" was DNA by process of elimination

• Avery

• Griffith

• Franklin & Wilkins

• Watson & Crick

The scientist(s) who labeled viruses with radioactive tags and settled the debate about whether it was proteins or DNA that was the genetic material of the cell

• Avery

• Hershey & Chase

• Watson & Crick

• Griffith

Why is DNA important?

• it is very small and very complicated

• it's in everything

• it is able to copy, store and express our hereditary information

• because we eat it every day for energy

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