Griffith's experiments showing the transformation of R strain pneumococcus bacteria to S strain pneumococcus bacteria in the presence of heat-killed S strain bacteria provided evidence that
A) an external factor was affecting the R strain bacteria.
B) DNA was definitely the transforming factor.
C) S strain bacteria could be reactivated after heat killing.
D) S strain bacteria required special genes to be pathogenic.
E) All of the above

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Griffith's experiments showed that an external factor (heat-killed S strain bacteria) was affecting the R strain bacteria. The experiments did not provide evidence for DNA being the transforming factor, the reactivation of heat-killed S strain bacteria, or the requirement of special genes for pathogenicity.

Griffith's Experiments Showing the Transformation of R Strain Pneumococcus Bacteria