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Encyclopedia > Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911–January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist. In 1944 he, Oswald Avery and Collin Macleod followed up on Griffith's experiment. Their experimental results showed that the genetic material of living cells is composed of DNA. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Collin M. Macleod (1909-1972) was a geneticist. ... Griffiths experiment was conducted in 1928 by Frederick Griffith which was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information, otherwise known as the “transforming principle”, which was later discovered to be DNA. Griffith used two strains of Pneumococcus (which infects mice), a S... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ...


External links

  • New York Times obituary (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/obituaries/06McCarty.html)
  • News release from Rockefeller University (http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/010305.php)
  • When was DNA proved to be the chemical basis of heredity? (http://www.rockefeller.edu/discovery/dna/index.php)

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Pioneering Geneticist Maclyn McCarty Dies (washingtonpost.com) (691 words)
Maclyn McCarty, 93, a Rockefeller University physician and microbiologist who was the last surviving member of a three-person team that made one of the most momentous discoveries in the history of genetics, died Jan. 2 of congestive heart failure at St. Luke's Roosevelt University Hospital in New York City.
McCarty, the junior member of the group, used his skills at purification to produce in a test tube a highly refined substance consisting of DNA uncontaminated with protein.
Maclyn McCarty was born in South Bend, Ind. He graduated from Stanford University in 1933 and received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1937.
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