In the Hershey and Chase experiment, if the radioactive sulfur had been found inside the bacteria rather than the radioactive phosphorus, what conclusion would they have made?
a) Proteins are the molecules that encode heredity.
b) DNA is the molecule that encodes heredity.
c) RNA is the molecule that encodes heredity.
d) Both RNA and DNA are molecules that could encode heredity
e) This result does not show any evidence for what molecule encodes heredity.
Ans: a) Proteins are the molecules that encode heredity.
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