A molecule that can act as a genetic material must fulfill the traits given below, except
it should be able to express itself in the form of ‘Mendelian characters’
it should be able to generate its replica
it should be unstable structurally and chemically
it should provide the scope for slow changes that are required for evolution.
Which is the hereditary material in bacteria
Transformation experiments using Pneumococcus bacteria led to the hypothesis that
A gene is made up of
Transformation was discovered by
Recall the experiments done by Frederick Griffith, Avery, MacLeod and McCarty, where $DNA$ was speculated to be the genetic material. If $RNA$, instead of $DNA$ was the genetic material, would the heat killed strain of Pneumococcus have transformed the $R\,-$ strain into virulent strain ? Explain.