1 gen 1944 anni - Oswald Avery discovers DNA is the genetic material

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- Physician Oswald Avery along with two other geneticists conducted an experiment that showed DNA was the "transforming principle".

- The experiment was conducted with geneticists Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty.

- It was discovered that when DNA is isolated from a strain of bacteria, it would transform another strain and confer characteristics onto it.

- Oswald released a report of his findings in February 1944, along with MacLeod and McCarty.

- His experiment proved that DNA is the genetic material, but his findings weren't accepted immediately among other scientists.

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