Out of the following give choices;
a. All DNA strands
contained only the heavy nitrogen isotope.
b. Half of the DNA strands contained only the light nitrogen
isotope.
c. All DNA strands contained both heavy and light nitrogen
isotopes.
d. All DNA strands contained only the lighter nitrogen
isotope.
The answer is b. Meselson–Stahl experiment demonstrated the semi-conservative model of DNA replication.
When DNA is replicated, one strand of the new double
helix strand is the parent's strand while the other is the newly synthesized
one. This made the semiconservative model stand out over the other two, dispersive
and conservative models.
Answer:
They used radioactive labeling techniques to build two different types of phage.
Explanation:
In 1952, a set of experiments were carried out by American biochemists Alfred D. Hershey (1908-1997) and Martha Chase. They prepared two separate virus samples, one contained DNA labeled with a radioactive isotope and the other contained protein labeled with a different radioactive isotope. They grew the two types of viruses separately, infected bacteria with the two sets of phages and analyzed the bacteria for radioactivity. From the results obtained, Hershey and Chase concluded that the viral genetic material was DNA and not protein, reinforcing the observations previously made by Avery.
