Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's experiments revealed that the transforming principle had all of the following properties except

A. its activity was unaffected by RNA-digesting enzymes.
B. its activity was destroyed by treatment with DNA endonucleases.
C. its activity was unaffected by lipid extraction.
D. its activity was destroyed by treatment with proteases.


Answer: D

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