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Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955)
Description
Oswald Theodore Avery studied strains of pneumococcus of the genus Streptococcus in the US in the first half of the twentieth century. This bacterium causes pneumonia, a common cause of death at the turn of the twentieth century. In a 1944 paper, Avery demonstrated with colleagues Colin Munro MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, instead of protein, formed the material of heritable transformation in bacteria. Avery helped untangle some of the relationships between genes and developmental processes.
Date Created
2013-12-12
Contributors
- Hauserman, Samantha (Author)
- Zou, Yawen (Editor)
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- People
- MacLeod, Colin M. (Colin Munro), 1909-
- Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty experiment
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Yes
Open Access
Yes
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10776/6689
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- 2023-01-24 06:13:31
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- 2023-04-20 05:31:32
- 1 year 7 months ago
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