Colin Munro MacLeod (1909 to 1972) was a Canadian-American microbiologist and geneticist. With Oswald Avery and Maclyn McCarty, he helped demonstrate in 1944 that DNA, not protein, is the molecule responsible for transforming the physical characteristics of bacteria, a finding known as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment and foundational to establishing DNA as the hereditary material. He later chaired the Department of Microbiology at New York University and advised several United States presidents on science policy.
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In Group: Molecular Biologists and Geneticists, Introduction, sentence 2Quote, In Group: Molecular Biologists and Geneticists, Introduction, sentence 2
He was one of a trio of scientists who discovered that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA is responsible for the transformation of the physical characteristics of bacteria, which subsequently led to its identification as the molecule responsible for heredity.
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