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The speaker says Oswald Avery's 1940s experiments ruled out proteins as the genetic material and identified DNA by process of elimination.
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“And Oswald Avery did these experiments in the 1940s which really ruled it out and discovered by process of elimination that it was DNA.”Play from 1:28:32Report a misattribution
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