Why Were The Transformation Experiments Of Griffith So Useful To Geneticists?

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Why Were The Transformation Experiments Of Griffith So Useful To Geneticists?

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They showed that genetic characteristic could be passed from one bacterium to another ( this was truly the first step in the field of genetic engineering, where characteristic from one cell are moved into another without the benefit of mating. Griffith could not say what molecule was transferred between the two strains, just that the genes were transferred in whatever molecule carries them.

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