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\nAlthough early scientists knew heredity came from within organisms, they couldn't initially identify the genetic material until pivotal experiments like those of Griffith and later Hershey and Chase. In 1952, Hershey and Chase used...\nAlthough early scientists knew heredity came from within organisms, they couldn't initially identify the genetic material until pivotal experiments like those of Griffith and later Hershey and Chase. In 1952, Hershey and Chase used bacteriophages labeled with radioactive phosphorus (for DNA) and sulfur (for proteins) to show that only DNA, not protein, entered E. coli cells during infection. This provided definitive evidence that DNA is the genetic material responsible for inheritance.\n
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2019
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viruses, bacteria, phosphorus, suspension
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csir, net, t2 bacteriophage, outer shell, east coli, genetic material, coli cells, nucleic acid, phage ghost, phage coast, progeny phages, host cell, present inside, progeny viruses, radioactive phosphorus, radiolabeled proteins, phage, phages, cell, present, sulphur, experiment, hypothesis, proteins, labeled, bacterium, medium
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