BCH4024 F25 E4 Douma Q2: During WWII, Oswald Avery performed…

BCH4024 F25 E4 Douma Q2: During WWII, Oswald Avery performed his groundbreaking experiment to determine the genetic information of a cell. In his experiment, he generated cell-free extract from the smooth strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae. He then removed the genetic information from the extract. He observed that when he mixed this extract with the rough strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae, it did not transform into the smooth strain. Which of the following best explains why he saw these results?