Question

In a series of experiments, Avery treated heat-killed nonvirulent s bacteria with enzymes that degraded the proteins, dna, and rna of the s bacteria, then mixed this with nonvirulent r bacteria. S cells grew in all cases except the samples with degraded dna. What did this demonstrate

Answer 1

Answer:

C. DNA from the S bacteria is necessary for bacterial transformation to occur.

Explanation:

These series of experiments determined that DNA is the genetic material which gives rise to a particular type of cell. As we can see, the S bacteria with degraded proteins were able to grow when the proteins and RNA were degraded. But they were not able to grow when their DNA was degraded. This experiment proved that proteins or RNA are not the genetic material, rather DNA is the material related to inheritance.