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Hershey and Chase


Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase in 1952 showed DNA to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction and not proteins, working with T2 phage. They showed by labelling the capsid proteins and nucleic acid of bacteriophage T2 with different radioactive isotopes that only the DNA of the phage had to enter the cell for virus replication to occur.
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