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Transforming factor
In the classical experiments by Avery, MacLeod and McCarty, the name given to the agent that caused the heritable transformation of R strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae into S strains. The identification of the factor as DNA was the definitive proof that DNA is the repository of genetic information.
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