A molecule that can act as a genetic material must fulfill the traits given below, except

  • [NEET 2016]
  • A

    it should be able to express itself in the form of ‘Mendelian characters’

  • B

    it should be able to generate its replica

  • C

    it should be unstable structurally and chemically

  • D

    it should provide the scope for slow changes that are required for evolution.

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Which is the hereditary material in bacteria

Transformation experiments using Pneumococcus bacteria led to the hypothesis that

  • [AIPMT 1993]

A gene is made up of

Transformation was discovered by

  • [NEET 2014]

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.