Hershey-Chase+Experiment


 * The Hershy-Chase Experiment:**

The Hershy-Chase Experiment most important experiments were taken place in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase. These two American Scienest were studying viruses. In particular they were studying bacteriophages, viruses that infact bacteria. The viruses insert their genetic makeup into the bacteria to kill it, and they were unsure as to whether the genetic makeup was the DNA centre of the bacteriaphage or the protein coating of it. They coated the DNA and the Protein coating in different cases with radioactive markers, so the radioactive markers would show whether the genetic makeup of the bacteriaphage was indeed the DNA or the protein coating. they found that the bacteriophages inserted their DNA into the bacterium, proving that the DNA was the bacteriophages DNA was its genetic makeup.

This picture is of a bacteriophage insertin g its genetic makeup, DNA, into a bacteria.