Hershey and Chase Performed an Elegant Experiment That Convinced Most

question 61

Multiple Choice

Hershey and Chase performed an elegant experiment that convinced most biologists that DNA, rather than protein, was the genetic material. This experiment subjected bacteria to the same gene transfer mechanism as occurs in

• A) transduction.
• B) transformation.
• C) conjugation.
• D) binary fission.
• E) endosymbiosis.

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