What Would Hershey and Chase Have Concluded If Phage Ghosts

question 5

Multiple Choice

What would Hershey and Chase have concluded if phage ghosts contained ³²P label but were absent from infected E.coli? Furthermore,they found ³⁵S lacking in the ghosts and present in the infected E.coli.

• A)that protein was the genetic material in phage
• B)that DNA was the genetic material in phage
• C)that somehow the radioactivity prevented DNA from getting into E.coli
• D)that protein and DNA together made up the genetic material

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