Describe Griffith's transformation experiment

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Griffith infected mice with mixtures of Streptococcus pneumoniae. S cells killed mice, while R cells did not. Killed S cells were also harmless to mice. However, when killed S cells were added to living R cells; the combination killed mice, and living S cells could be isolated from the dead mice. Griffith postulated that something in the killed S cells transformed living R cells to S cells.

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