If You Repeated the Hershey and Chase Experiment Designed to Determine

question 23

Multiple Choice

If you repeated the Hershey and Chase experiment designed to determine the molecule of heredity using a virus with RNA as its genetic material, you would expect that

• A)³⁵S-labeled protein would be transferred to infected cells.
• B)³²P-labeled DNA would be transferred to infected cells.
• C)³²P-labeled RNA would be transferred to infected cells.
• D)³²P-labeled RNA would be transferred to phage ghosts.
• E)³⁵S-labeled RNA would be transferred to infected cells.

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