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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Definitions:

Standard Error

The typical deviation found within the distribution of samples for a statistic, usually referring to the mean.

Independent Samples

Independent samples refer to two or more groups of data that are collected from separate, non-overlapping populations, ensuring they are not influenced by each other.

Normal Populations

The term "normal populations" relates to groups or sets of entities that exhibit characteristics distributed according to a normal (Gaussian) distribution.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution of a specific statistic derived from a random sample, which is utilized to draw conclusions about the broader population that the sample represents.