Genetic 342 A&B Kenneth G Wilson Professory of Botany

RNA as the Genetic Material. Heinz Frankel-Conrat and Bei Singer (Husband and Wife Team) performed one of the most powerful kinds of experiments - a "Reconstitution Experiment". They were able to take TMV a part and reconstitute or rebuild it back up in a cross mixing type of experiment.

Later Alfred Gierer and Gerhard Schramm demonstrated infection with only TMV RNA with the production of virus completing this story of RNA as the genetic material

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet, Oliver is a true parrot, the smallest in the world.