At a CWI science fair, two students decided to repeat the He…
At a CWI science fair, two students decided to repeat the Hershey and Chase experiment, with modifications. They decided to label the nitrogen of the DNA, rather than the phosphate. They reasoned that each nucleotide has only one phosphate group and two to five nitrogen atoms (contained in a single nitrogenous base). Thus, labeling the nitrogen atoms would provide a stronger signal than labeling the phosphate groups. Why didn’t this experiment succeed in demonstrating what Hershey and Chase had found?
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