Chapter 12, Problem 1RQ

Summary Introduction

To describe:

The experimental evidence that DNA is the hereditary material of bacteriophage.

Introduction:

Biologists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase introduced bacteriophage into a bacterial cell to determine that which is the genetic part responsible for the information flow, whether it is a DNA or protein. Bacteriophage has both DNA and protein molecules which infect bacteria by entering into its body.