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The bacterium that Frederick Griffith studied is called Streptococcus pneumoniae. His experiments in the 1920s demonstrated the phenomenon of transformation, showing how non-virulent bacteria could acquire virulence by taking up genetic material from heat-killed virulent bacteria. This foundational work laid the groundwork for the discovery of DNA as the genetic material.

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