Question

After allowing phages grown with bacteria in a medium that contained 32p and 35s, hershey and chase used a centrifuge to separate the phage ghosts from the infected cell. they then examined the infected cells and found that they contained _____, which demonstrated that _____ is the phage's genetic material.

Answer 1

They then examined the infected cells and found that they contained labeled DNA, Since the phage DNA entered the infected cell, which demonstrated that it makes sense that DNA is the phage's genetic material. A bacteriophage or a phage is a virus that infects and replicates within Bacteria and Archaea. Phages replicate within the bacterium following the injection of their genome into its cytoplasm.