The answer to your question is bacteria
The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it was proteins that served the function of carrying genetic.
A species<span> is a way to </span>classify<span> an </span>organism by its distinct characteristics that match others in a population<span> - </span>organisms<span> within a </span>species<span> have the ability to produce offspring with one another.</span>