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

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


A.  its activity was destroyed by treatment with proteases.

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