Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Griffiths experiment, reported in 1928 by frederick griffith, was the first experiment suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation. Frederick griffith 1879 1941 was a british medical officer and geneticist. Griffiths findings were followed by research in the late 1930s and early 40s that isolated dna as the material that communicated this genetic information. This was the first experiment that proved the capability of bacteria to take up by. In 1928, in what is today known as griffiths experiment, he discovered what he called a transforming principle, which is today known to be dna. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled gnu free documentation license. Thereafter, he worked at the liverpool royal infirmary, the joseph tie laboratory, and the royal commission on tuberculosis. Pdf the virulence of pneumococci for mice depends on the production of a. Frederick griffith was born in prescot, merseyside formerly in cheshire england, in late 1877 registered december quarter in prescot, lancashire registration district, vol 8b, page 670, and attended liverpool university.
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