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Molecular Basis Of Inheritance

Question
CBSEENBI12003068

In 1944, Avery, McCarty and MacLeod isolated substance from heat killed a virulent form of bacteria and added to the non-virulent form of bacteria which changed the non-virulent to virulent from this substance can be destroyed by

  • DNAse

  • Protease

  • Lipase

  • Amylase

Solution

A.

DNAse

Avery, MacLeod and McCarty carried out an experiment from which they reported that DNA is a substance that causes bacterial transformation from non-virulent to virulent bacteria, but DNAase acts as a waste management endonucleases responsible for DNA fragmentation.