The document summarizes several key experiments that helped establish DNA as the genetic material: - Griffith's experiment showed a "transforming principle" in dead bacteria could change live bacteria; - Avery, McCarty and MacLeod purified and identified this principle as DNA; - Hershey and Chase showed that DNA, not protein, was injected by viruses into infected bacteria; - Fraenkel-Conrat's experiment proved that RNA could also act as genetic material. Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography work provided evidence of DNA's double-helix structure, though she did not receive full credit due to gender biases of the time.