Question

In the hershey and chase experiment that helped confirm that dna,not protein, was the hereditary material, what was the key finding?

Answer 1

The experiment conducted in 1952 by hershey and chase consisted in the use of sulfur to track proteins and radioactive phosphorus to track DNA from T2 phages that infect bacterial cells, the key result was that phage proteins were outside the cell during the infection but the DNA was inside the cells because new phages were obtained with radioactive phosphorus. This allows us to conclude that DNA acts as a genetic material of phage T2