Until the mid-1940s, which molecule was favoured as the molecule of inheritance?
A)lipid
B)carbohydrate
C)protein
D)DNA
E)RNA

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Until the mid-1940s, most scientists thought that proteins were the molecules of inheritance, because they are more complex than DNA and RNA. It wasn't until the experiments of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty in the late 1940s that it was definitively proven that DNA was the molecule of inheritance.

Until the Mid-1940s, Which Molecule Was Favoured as the Molecule