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Frederick Griffith discovered bacterial transformation.
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Oswald Avery discovered that the chemical that transformed bacteria was DNA.
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Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase confirmed DNA was the genetic material of a phage.
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Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins used an X-ray diffraction image to view structure of DNA.
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James Watson and Francis Crick discovered that DNA was a double-helical structure.