What was the griffith experiment in 1928 about Genetic material.
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Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was the first experiment suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation. Pneumonia was a serious cause of death in the wake of the post-WWI Spanish influenza pandemic, and Griffith was studying the possibility of creating a vaccine. Griffith used two strains of pneumococcus bacteria which infect mice – a type III-S (smooth) which was virulent, and a type II-R (rough) strain which was nonvirulent. The III-S strain covered itself with a polysaccharide capsule that protected it from the host's immune system, resulting in the death of the host, while the II-R strain did not have that protective capsule and was defeated by the host's immune system.
griffith experiment was an experiment done in 1928 by Frederick Griffith.it was one of the first experiment showing that bacteria can get DNA through a process called transformation used to strength of Streptococcus pneumoniae. these bacteria in fact mice .