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Martha Cowles Chase is remember for a landmark experiement in genetics.

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Who concluded that the genetis material of a bacteriophage is DNA?

The scientists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in 1952, and concluded that the genetic material of a bacteriophage was DNA.


These scientists used a common kitchen appliance to help show that phage DNA carries instructions ti make new phage particles?

The scientists used a blender to break open the bacterial cells infected by phages, releasing the phage DNA. This demonstrated that the phage DNA carries instructions to produce new phage particles when introduced into a host bacterial cell.


What was the Hershey Chase experiment and what were its key findings?

The Hershey-Chase experiment was a scientific study conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase. They used bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, to demonstrate that DNA, not protein, is the genetic material that carries hereditary information. The key finding of the experiment was that when the bacteriophages infected bacteria, only the DNA of the virus was injected into the bacterial cell, not the protein coat. This provided strong evidence that DNA is the molecule responsible for transmitting genetic information.


Who was the first person to declare DNA to be the genetic material?

In 1928, Frederick Griffith was able to transform harmless bacteria into virulent pathogens with an extract that Oswald Avery proved, in 1944, to be DNA. In 1952, Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey used radioactively labeled virus DNA to infect bacteria, proving the same point.


What scientist concluded that DNA was the factor that caused one bacterium to transfer into another?

In 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty published a paper demonstrating that DNA was the transforming factor.Their discovery was at first met with disbelief by some scientists, who thought that only proteins could have enough complexity to hold genetic information. Also, for a while some scientists thought bacteria might have a different genetic chemistry from other organisms.Avery