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A 1927 experiment demonstrating the process of bacterial transformation was later the basis for an early important experiment supporting the hypothesis that dna was in fact the genetic material of living cells [bacteria in this case]. this original 1927 experiment provided an assay for the "transforming principle" and was carried out by:

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This 1927 experiment was carried out by Frederick Griffith.

His experiment was the first to suggest that bacteria were capable of transferring genetic information through transformation.
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