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jan 1, 1944 - 1944: Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty figured out that DNA is the thing that causes bacterial transformation, and along with that they isolated DNA to find out what genes and chromosomes are made of.

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jan 1, 1944
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~ 82 years ago

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