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Chapter 14: "The Genetic Material"

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1. Why did Fredrick Griffith get a different result when he injected a mixture of heat-killed pathogenic and live non-pathogenic Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria than he did when he injected heat-killed pathogenic or live non-pathogenic Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria alone?
- What happened in the bacteria mixture that made it different than the two types of bacteria alone?


2. What is the structure of a nucleotide? How does the structure of a single nucleotide result in the fact that a nucleic acid has a structural polarity?


3. What were the contributions of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick to the elucidation of the double-helical structure of DNA?

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