Avery, Macleod and McCarty’s Experiment

Avery, Macleod and McCarty’s Experiment
Introduction
In 1944, after a decade of research, Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty and Colin Macleod discovered that the transforming agent had to be DNA.
Experiment
They performed various experiments and found out that the only substance, which carried the transforming capability was DNA because if the enzyme deoxyriba-nuclease was added to the bacteria, the transforming capability was lot.