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Title:
"Extract #24 Overnight Incubation [without] Added Glucose" (image 1)
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Description:
Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "An extract prepared with pneumococci from 51 liters of culture omitting the addition of extra glucose for the final two hours of growth to reduce the amount of polysaccharide formed. The activity (transformation with .03 ml of a 1:10,000 dilution) proved to be the highest yet encountered."
Item is handwritten.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (181,335 Bytes)
Date:
1941-12-02 (December 2, 1941)
Creator:
[McCarty, Maclyn]
Contributor:
Avery, Oswald T.
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of Maclyn McCarty.
Exhibit Category:
DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944
Relation:
Metadata Record "Extract #24 Overnight Incubation [without] Added Glucose" (image 2) (December 2, 1941)
Box Number: 1
Folder Number: 4
Unique Identifier:
CCAACT
Document Type:
Laboratory notes
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Research and Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1912-1999
SubSeries: Preliminary Research
Folder: Laboratory Notes, 1940-1946
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2006-12-12

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