Hershey and Chase performed an elegant experiment that convinced most biologists that DNA , rather than protein, was the genetic material. This experiment subjected bacteria to the same gene transfer mechanism as occurs in

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Hershey and Chase performed an elegant experiment that convinced most biologists that DNA , rather than protein, was the genetic material. This experiment subjected bacteria to the same gene transfer mechanism as occurs in