Which of the following is not an accurate statement describing the contributions of researchers to the structure of DNA?
A. Erwin Chargaff determined that the percent of adenine was equal to the percent of thymine and the percent of guanine was equal to the percent of cytosine.
B. Watson and Crick used the work of previous researchers, including Chargaff and Franklin to determine the overall structure of DNA with sugar and phosphate components making up the strands with the nitrogenous bases in the interior.
C. Rosalind Franklin used X-ray crystallography to determine that DNA was a double helix in shape.
D. Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase injected viruses into mice to determine that the inheritable material was DNA and not protein.
Answer: D
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