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In their experiments, Hershey and Chase showed that when bacteriophages, which are composed of DNA and protein, infect bacteria, their DNA enters the host bacterial cell, but most of their protein does not. Although the results were not conclusive, and Hershey and Chase were cautious in their interpretation, previous, contemporaneous and subsequent discoveries all served to prove that DNA is the hereditary material.

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Hershey and Chase's experiment using bacteriophages proved that DNA, not protein, is the genetic material in cells. This discovery was a key milestone in understanding how genetic information is passed from one generation to the next. It laid the foundation for the field of molecular Biology.

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they concluded that the genetic material of the bacteriophage was DNA, not protein

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