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Biology Chapter 9 Summary

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Throughout Chapter 9, many different concepts related to genetic material are introduced such as many different experiments from scientists such as Griffith and Avery, the role of DNA, the structure of DNA, and the replication of DNA. In section 1, you are introduced to Frederick Griffith’s experiment testing for a vaccine against the S pneumoniae which resulted in his discovery of transformation. According the the textbook, the definition of transformation is: a change in phenotype caused when bacterial cells take up foreign genetic material. You are also introduced to Oswald Avery’s experiments that demonstrated that DNA is the material responsible for transformation. Lastly, in section 1 you are introduced to Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase’s
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The article I read is about "informal primatology." The author focuses on three points with evidence to prove that there is actually not a wide seperation between sociocultural anthropology and primatology. The author's first point is to state primatology has actually gain from the humanist tradition of reflexivity. Second, the author points to indicate how the largely anthropogenic circumstances in which primate populations lives has stem in two growths for anthropological primatolog. The author's last point is to state how primates conversation can learn from recent studies on the anthropology of

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