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

Understand the concept of distribution characteristics such as symmetry, peakedness, and variability.

Distinguish between the various central tendency measures (mean, median, mode) and variability measures (standard deviation, variance, range).

Identify and decide when to use parameters versus statistics.

Understand the impact of sample size on statistical measures.

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