Question

The beginning of understanding genetic transformation in bacteria was made by

• A. Frederick Griffith
• B. Hershey and Chase
• C. Watson and Crick
• D. T.H. Morgan

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Frederick Griffith

Answer 2

The first evidence of bacterial transformation was obtained by the British scientist Frederick Griffith in the late $1920\,s$. Griffith was working with Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pneumococcus), a bacterium that owes its ability to invade the body in part to the presence of a polysaccharide capsule.