The significance of Fred Griffith's experiment

in which he used two strains of Streptococcus
pneumoniae is that
a. pathogenic bacteria function differently in
mice than in other organisms.
b. it demonstrated that harmless bacteria can
become transformed into disease-causing
bacteria by bacteria a transformation factor.
c. it established that pure DNA extracted from
disease-causing bacteria transformed
harmless strains into killer strains.
d. dead cells lose their genetic information.
e. the genetic material is DNA, not protein


B

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_____ Direct development has evolved multiple times.
_____ Evolution always proceeds parsimoniously.
_____ Possession of a larval stage is the ancestral state in limpets.

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