GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
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Watson and Crick Experiment
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Griffith Experiment
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Hershey Chase Experiment
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Avery Experiments
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase took an effort to find the genetic material in organisms. Their experiments led to an unequivocal proof to DNA as genetic material. Bacteriophages (viruses that affect bacteria) were the key element for Hershey and Chase experiment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most well-known Hershey-Chase experiment was the final experiment, also called the Waring Blender experiment, through which Hershey and Chase showed that phages only injected their DNA into host bacteria, and that the DNA served as the replicating genetic element of phages.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hershey and Chase used bacteriophage, called T2. It was an experimental tool they used to prove that DNA was the genetic material.