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 DNA, not protein or RNA, was the molecule that was passed down from generation to generation as the unit of inheritance. Therefore, the molecular component of the T2 virus that ended up inside the cell was DNA.

Hershey and Chase Set Out to Determine What Molecule Served