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Works Cited:

Alfred Day Hershey :: DNA Learning Center. (n.d.). DNALC Blogs. Retrieved November 19, 2013, from http://www.dnalc.org/view/16051-Alfred-Day-Hershey.html

Evers, C. (n.d.). Experiments that Inspire. Experiments that Inspire. Retrieved November 19, 2013, from http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Experiments_that_Inspire.php

Hershey-Chase experiment. (n.d.). Hershey-Chase experiment. Retrieved November 19, 2013, from http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Hershey-Chase_experiment.html

Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

Bacteriophages

What is a bacteriophage?

A virus composed of protein and DNA.

A bacteriophage infects a bacterium by taking control of the bacterium's inner workings. It uses this control to produce more copies of itself, creating more viruses.

Findings

Hershey and Chase

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-American biologists

-Washington

-Performed their experiment in 1952

The Experiment

T2 phage was used in the Hershey and Chase experiment.

Goal: To determine which part of the bacteriophage directs the takeover of a bacterium; the protein or the DNA.

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