Hershey and Chase set out to determine what molecule served as the unit of inheritance. They completed a series of transduction experiments in which E. coli was infected by a T2 virus. Which molecular component of the T2 virus actually ended up inside the cell?

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Hershey and Chase's experiments showed that the DNA, not the protein, of the T2 virus was the molecule that entered the bacterial cell and played a role in genetic inheritance.

Hershey and Chase Set Out to Determine What Molecule Served