Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty purified the 'transforming principle' identified by Griffith. Which treatment specifically abolished the transforming activity, proving its chemical nature?
Protease
Ribonuclease
Deoxyribonuclease
Lipase
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In his bacteriophage experiments, Hershey and Chase demonstrated that DNA is genetic material in
TMV
bacteriophage
Griffith conducted his transformation experiments on?
E. Coli
Tetracoccus
Diplococcus
Penicillin
Griffith conducted his transformation experiments on?
E. Coli
Tetracoccus
Diplococcus
Penicillin
In Hershey and Chase's experiment, what was the key observation that supported DNA as the genetic material?
Radioactive sulfur () was found inside the bacteria.
Radioactive phosphorus () remained outside the bacteria.
Both radioactive sulfur () and phosphorus () were found inside the bacteria.
Radioactive phosphorus () was found inside the bacteria.
If Hershey and Chase had found radioactive sulfur () inside the bacteria instead of radioactive phosphorus (), what would have been the conclusion of their experiment?
DNA is the genetic material.
Protein is the genetic material.
Both DNA and protein are the genetic material.
Neither DNA nor protein is the genetic material.
Which experiment definitively proved that DNA, and not protein, carries genetic information?
Griffith's transformation experiment
Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's experiment
Meselson and Stahl's DNA replication experiment
Hershey and Chase's bacteriophage experiment
In the Hershey-Chase experiment, why was radioactive sulfur (35S) used to label phage proteins?
Sulfur is a component of both DNA and protein
Sulfur is a component of proteins but not DNA
Sulfur is easily detectable in bacterial cells
Sulfur is a common component of bacterial cell walls
From his transformation experiment Griffith concluded with transforming principle might be?
DNA
Polysaccharide Capsule
RNA
None
In Hershey and Chase experiment the viral DNA can be labelled with?