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The unequivocal proof that $DNA$ is the genetic material came from the experiment of Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase.

Avery, Macleoid and McCarty gave the biochemical characterisation of Transforming Principle.

The transformation experiments by using Pneumococcus was conducted by Frederick Griffith. Wilkins and Franklin produced $X$-ray diffraction data of $DNA.$

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