Concept 17 A gene is made of DNA.

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Profiles in Science

From the National Library of Medicine, this site has a very extensive collection of material on Oswald Avery. The material was donated by Dr. Joshua Lederberg.

Bibliography

• Avery, Oswald, MacLeod, Colin, and McCarty, Maclyn, 1944, Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types, Journal of Exp. Med., 79: 137-158.
• Bardossi, Fulvio, 1988, Oswald Avery and the Sugar-coated Microbe, Research Profiles, The Rockefeller University, 31, Spring.
• Dubos, René J., 1976, The Professor, The Institute, and DNA, The Rockefeller University Press, New York.
• Dunn, L.C., 1991, A Short History of Genetics: The Development of Some of the Main Lines of Thought: 1864-1939, Iowa State University Press, Ames.
• Griffith, Fred, 1928, The Significance of Pneumococcal Types, Journal of Hygiene, Cambridge, 27: 113-159.
• Judson, Horace Freeland, 1979, The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Simon and Schuster, New York.
• Kay, Lily E., 1993, The Molecular Vision of Life, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Lagerkvist, Ulf, 1998, DNA Pioneers and Their Legacy, Yale University Press, New Haven.
• McCarty, Maclyn, 1985, The Transforming Principle: Discovering that Genes Are Made of DNA, W.W. Norton & Company, New York.
• McCarty, Maclyn, 1994, A Retrospective Look: How We Identified the Pneumococcal Transforming Substance as DNA, Journal of Exp. Med., 179: 385-394.
• Morange, Michel, 1998, A History of Molecular Biology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Nobel Lectures in Molecular Biology 1933-1975, 1977, Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., New York.
• Olby, Robert, 1974, The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
• Portugal, Franklin H., and Cohen, Jack S., 1977, A Century of DNA: A History of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U. S. A.
• Rosenfield, Israel, Ziff, Edward, and Van Loon, Borin, 1983, DNA for Beginners, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc.
• Watson, James D., 1987, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Menlo Park, California.