BIOL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Petri Dish, Phosphodiester Bond, Nucleic Acid Double Helix

• School: UBC
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 121
• Professor: Carol Pollock

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A strain is a population of genetically identical individuals. Strains that affect humans vary in their virulence their ability to cause disease and death. Virulent strains cause disease, avirulent (benign) strains do not. A liquid or solid that is suitable for growing cells (a petri dish can contain nutrient-containing medium) Griffith in the 1920s did experiments to develop vaccine against. Griffith worked with strains identifiable by eye when grown on a nutrient- containing medium in a petri dish. On a solid medium, cells from the nonvirulent strain form colonies that look rough (r) ; cells from the virulent strain form colonies that look smooth (s) Griffith injected mice with r strain, s strain, heat-killed s strain, and r strain with heat-killed s strain. Found that mice died when injected with s strain, and with r strain with heat-killed s strain; mice did not die with r strain nor heat-killed s strain. Griffith proposed that something from the heat-killed s cells.