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Maria Leigh
@leighmaria789 28, May 2023 12:00 AM
Griffith’s experiment
In Griffith’s experiment, do you think the heat treatment that killed the bacteria also inactivated the bacterial DNA?
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Edgar Braner
@braneredgar 09, Jun 2023 09:51 PM
No, because after heat treatment, the DNA from the S strain bacteria was able to make the R strain bacteria, which is normally harmless, deadly. So the DNA was still causing the same effects after the heat treatment, and therefore seemed to be functioning normally.