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Title:
"Repetition of Dog and Rabbit Sera Experiments" (image 1)
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Description:
Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "Experiment showing the effect of dog and rabbit sera in destroying transforming activity. The effect of dog serum was inactivated at a lower temperature than rabbit serum, and the same temperature differential was shown to obtain on testing the activity of these sera in depolymerizing purified mammalian DNA."
Item is handwritten.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (140,164 Bytes)
Date:
1942-10-01 (October 1, 1942)
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Avery, Oswald T.
Rights:
Courtesy of Maclyn McCarty.
Exhibit Category:
DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944
Relation:
Metadata Record "Repetition of Dog and Rabbit Sera Experiments" (image 2) (October 2, 1942)
Box Number: 1
Folder Number: 4
Unique Identifier:
CCAACX
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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