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infect e. coli
remove e. coli
check phage
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what material did hershey and chase prove to be the transformative factor during their experiments?
dna
proteins
viruses
Brief Explanations
The Hershey - Chase experiment used bacteriophages to infect E. coli. They labeled DNA and proteins of phages. The results showed that DNA (not proteins or just viruses as a whole) entered the bacterial cells and was the transformative factor (the genetic material that carries hereditary information and causes transformation).
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A. DNA