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Hershey and chase used a dna-based virus for their work. How might the results have been different if they had used an rna virus?

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The resulting DNA wouldn't have been radioactive

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Hershey and Chase confirmed that DNA is the genetic material instead of proteins. In their experiments, they observed that the DNA is the hereditary material because radioactive phosphorus-32 remained in the progeny of phage used to infect bacteria. Consequently, if Hershey and Chase would have used RNA viruses, bacteriophage infection wouldn't have the same results

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