Which of the following statements are correct for Griffth experiments?
(i) Frederick Griffith did experiments with Streptococcus pneumoniae.
(ii) Mice infected with the S strain die from pneumonia infection but mice infected with the R strain do not develop pneumonia.
(iii) Heat-killed S strain bacteria injected to mice did not kill them.
(iv) Mixture of heat-killed S and live R bacteria injected into mice then the mice died, and living S bacteria recovered from the dead mice.
(v) Some ‘transforming principle’ called genetic material transferred from the heat-killed S strain to R strain bacteria and enabled the R strain to become virulent.
(vi) The biochemical nature of genetic material was not defined from this experiment.
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