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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Definitions:

Reproductive Maturity

The stage in an organism's life cycle when it becomes capable of producing offspring.

Adaptive Radiation

Macroevolutionary pattern in which a lineage undergoes a burst of genetic divergences that gives rise to many species.

Evolutionary Innovation

The development of new structures, behaviors, or physiological processes in a species that enhances survival, reproduction, or adaptation to environmental changes.

Uniformitarianism

The principle suggesting that Earth's geologic processes acted in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity in the past as they do in the present, and that this consistency accounts for all geological changes.