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Okay, so here we have a question about the significance of the work done by hershey and chase.
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So before we look at the answer choices, let's just discuss this experiment a little bit.
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This experiment took advantage of bacteriophages, so viruses that infect bacteria.
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I'm drawing one right here.
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And those phages are built, they're really simple, they're built out of two things.
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A protein component and a dna component.
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And this allowed these researchers to see which component carried the important instructions to produce more viruses.
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Okay, so they ultimately found that the answer to this is that the dna was the component that carried this, right? and all of this showed support for the idea that dna is the molecule that contains genetic information...