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Why did avery use an enzyme to destroy the protein, rna, and dna in each sample?

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Answer:Avery and his team extracted a mixture of various molecules from the heat-killed bacteria and treated this mixture with enzymes that destroyed proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and some other molecules, including the nucleic acid RNA. Transformation still occurred.

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