1944
Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty publish their landmark paper identifying DNA as the "transforming" substance of heredity
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1944
Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty publish their landmark paper identifying DNA as the "transforming" substance of heredity