If you repeated the Hershey and Chase experiment designed to determine the molecule of heredity using a virus with RNA as its genetic material, you would expect that

A) 35S-labeled protein would be transferred to infected cells.
B) 32P-labeled DNA would be transferred to infected cells.
C) 32P-labeled RNA would be transferred to infected cells.
D) 32P-labeled RNA would be transferred to phage ghosts.
E) 35S-labeled RNA would be transferred to infected cells.


C) 32P-labeled RNA would be transferred to infected cells.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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For a lambda phage in lysogeny, why is a repressor protein required to block the lytic cycle from the beginning?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is NOT related to genetic drift?

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