What are the percentages of sulphur and phosphorus isotope that were present extracellularly after 4 minutes of blending experiment in Hershey - Chase blender experiment. Explanation of the graph in Hershey and Chase experiment
What are the percentages of sulphur and phosphorus isotope that were present extracellularly after 4 minutes of blending experiment in Hershey - Chase blender experiment. Explanation of the graph in Hershey and Chase experiment
DNA is the organic molecule that carries information from one generation to another. Several experiments were to be conducted to prove that DNA is the genetic material. One such experiment is the Hershey–Chase experiment commonly
known as the blender experiment.
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect the bacteria and take up their translation machinery for their life cycle. This property was exploited to prove that DNA is a genetic material along with the help of radioactive isotopes.
The bacteriophage has three components a capsid made of proteins and genetic material made of nucleic acids. The nucleic acids have phosphorus, and proteins have sulfur. The radioactive isotopes of these are selected that are, and. In the experiment, the sulfur and phosphorus are labeled as radioactive tracers and were then allowed to infect the bacteria. The virus–bacteria mixture was mixed in a blender to remove the viral ghost shell from the extracellular side of the bacteria.
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