DNA as Genetic material: Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment (Animation)

Copyright disclaimer: This animation is from CD-ROM of the book, iGenetics: A Molecular Approach by Peter J. Russell, and is the sole property of ‘iGenetics: A Molecular Approach by Peter J. Russell, published by Benjamin Cummings’ I’m not getting any monetary benefits from this and It’s uploaded here on YouTube solely for educational purposes (because of the requests from so many students as they are unable to view the content of the CD-ROM on their smartphones). The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation. In an era when it had been widely believed that it was proteins that served the function of carrying genetic information, Avery and his colleagues suggest that DNA, rather than protein as widely believed at the time, may be the hereditary material of many organisms.