Griffith concluded that the type II-R had been "transformed" into the lethal III-S strain by a "transforming principle" that was somehow part of the dead III-S strain bacteria.
Grifitov zaključak je bio da se vrsta II-R "transformisala" u letalnu III-S vrstu posredstvom "transformišućeg principa" koji je nekako bio deo mrtvih bakterija III-S vrste.