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Question : Select an incorrect statement regarding experiments of Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty to determine the biochemical nature of 'transforming principle' in Griffith's experiment

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They purified BIOCHEMICALS (PROTEINS, DNA, RNA, etc) from the heat-killed S cells to SEE which ones could transform live R cellsinto S cells
They discovered that DNA ALONE from S bacteria caused R bacteria to become transformed
They discovered that proteases and RNases promoted transformation
Digestion with Dnase inhibited transformation, suggesting that the DNA caused the transformation.

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