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#Question id: 3826


Which scientists first gave experimental evidence that DNA is the genetic material?

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
  1. Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty who repeated the transformation experiments of Griffith, and chemically characterized the transforming principle.

  2. Garrod, who postulated that Alkaptonuria, or black urine disease, was due to a defective enzyme.

  3. Beadle and Tatum, who used a mutational and biochemical analysis of the bread mold Neurospora to establish a direct link between genes and enzymes.

  4. Meselson and Stahl who showed that DNA is replicated semi conservatively.