It could be a yes or no... to me because you try something you did try an put your work in to it when it was hard work.... I agree because you always try when you do something... if it can't be proven at least you tried on it
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.
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They are negatively affecting the niche of the insect in its habitat. The Insect might not survive this