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What is the genetic code?
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The manner in which cells store the program that they pass from one generation to the next.
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What did Frederick Griffith's experiments show? (Fig 7-2)
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He showed that "something" had been transferred from the heat-killed disease-causing bacteria to the live harmless bacteria, transforming them into disease-causing bacteria.
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Griffith called the process that he saw in his experiments_____?
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Transformation
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Avery and other scientists ran experiments that showed that the transformation factor in Griffith's experiments was___?
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DNA
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What is DNA?
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the nucleic acid that stores and transmits the genetic information from one gereration of an organism to the next
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