Who used viruses to determine that dna was the molecule of heredity?
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Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase Hershey and Chase
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Within cells, the long strands of <b>DNA</b> form condensed structures called 
chromosomes. Organisms inherit genetic material from their parents in the form of
&nbsp;... The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by 
Pythagoras, ... In the 1940s and early 1950s, experiments pointed to <b>DNA</b> as the 
portion of ... The most influential early theories of <b>heredity</b> were that of 
Hippocrates and&nbsp;... Hershey and Chase and subsequent discoveries all served to prove that <b>DNA</b> is 
the <b>hereditary</b> material. Hershey shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or&nbsp;... Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic 
variation, and <b>heredity</b> in organisms. Though <b>heredity</b> had been observed for 
millennia, Gregor Mendel, a scientist ... The full set of <b>hereditary</b> material in an 
organism (usually the combined <b>DNA</b> sequences of all chromosomes) is called 
the genome. During this time, the molecule of <b>heredity</b>, <b>DNA</b>, was also discovered, which 
allowed scientists to actually examine and manipulate genetic information 
directly. Mitochondrial <b>DNA</b> (mtDNA or mDNA) is the <b>DNA</b> located in mitochondria, 
cellular organelles ... &quot;Lost in the zygote: the dilution of paternal mtDNA upon 
fertilization&quot;. <b>Heredity</b>. 101 (5): 429–34. doi:10.1038/hdy.2008.74. PMID 
18685570. A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics, the science of genes, <b>heredity</b>, 
and variation of ... diagnostics &middot; Sales and Marketing of scientific products; 
Science Journalism &middot; Patent Law &middot; Paternity testing &middot; Forensic <b>DNA</b> &middot; Agriculture&nbsp;... Genetic testing, also known as <b>DNA</b> testing, is used to identify changes in <b>DNA</b> 
sequence or ... Another limitation to genetic testing for a <b>hereditary</b> linked cancer, 
is the variants of unknown clinical significance. Because the human genome has
&nbsp;... A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in 
the genome. ... Very few disorders are inherited on the Y chromosome or 
mitochondrial <b>DNA</b>. ... but are generally omitted when referring to genetic 
disorders, since most are not <b>hereditary</b> (though predispositions and cancer 
syndromes exist). ... and his colleagues suggest that <b>DNA</b>, rather than protein as widely believed at 
the time, may be the <b>hereditary</b> material of bacteria, and could be analogous to&nbsp;...
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The Hershey–Chase experiments were a series of experiments conducted in 
1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that helped to confirm that <b>DNA</b> is 
<b>genetic</b> ... <b>Viruses</b> were known to be composed of a protein shell and <b>DNA</b>, so 
they&nbsp;... In the fields of molecular biology and <b>genetics</b>, a genome is the <b>genetic</b> material 
of an organism. It consists of <b>DNA</b> (or RNA in RNA <b>viruses</b>). The genome&nbsp;... In biology, a mutation is the alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome 
of an organism, <b>virus</b>, or extrachromosomal <b>DNA</b>. Mutations result from errors 
during <b>DNA</b> replication, mitosis, and meiosis, ... One study on <b>genetic</b> variations 
between different species of Drosophila suggests that, if a mutation changes a 
protein&nbsp;... Reverse <b>genetics</b> is a method in molecular <b>genetics</b> that is used to help 
understand the function ... Automated <b>DNA</b> sequencing generates large volumes 
of genomic sequence data relatively rapidly. ... The reverse <b>genetics</b> approach to 
vaccine synthesis utilizes known <b>viral genetic</b> sequences to create a desired 
phenotype:&nbsp;... Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule composed of two chains that coil around 
each other to form a double helix carrying <b>genetic</b> instructions for the 
development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and 
many <b>viruses</b>. ... A gene is a unit of <b>heredity</b> and is a region of <b>DNA</b> that 
influences a particular&nbsp;... Transduction is the process by which foreign <b>DNA</b> is introduced into a cell by a 
<b>virus</b> or <b>viral</b> vector. Transduction is a common tool used by&nbsp;... ... that <b>DNA</b>, rather than protein as widely believed at the time, may be the 
<b>hereditary</b> material of bacteria, and could be analogous to genes and/or <b>viruses</b> 
in&nbsp;... Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are endogenous <b>viral</b> elements in the genome 
that closely ... Integrase guides the integration of <b>viral DNA</b> into the host genome. 
Over time, the genome ... Recombination between homologous retroviral 
sequences has also contributed to gene shuffling and the generation of <b>genetic</b> 
variation. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of 
<b>genetic</b> ... Natural transformation is a bacterial adaptation for <b>DNA</b> transfer (HGT) 
that depends on the expression of numerous bacterial genes whose ... Plants are 
capable of receiving <b>genetic</b> information from <b>viruses</b> by horizontal gene transfer. Transcription is the first of several steps of <b>DNA</b> based gene expression in which 
a particular ... This process is catalyzed by a <b>viral</b> RNA replicase. ... A molecule 
that allows the <b>genetic</b> material to be realized as a protein was first hypothesized
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Hershey–Chase experiment