Alfred+Hershey+Biography

== =Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase= ==== I chose to research Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase because their work was tremendously influential. Proving that DNA was the genetic material essentially paved the way for any research or advancements made in the field of DNA and genetic reproduction. This discovery was the foundation for the researching of DNA’s effect on things like heredity and diseases. Hershey was influenced by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, who collaborated on an experiment in 1944 that demonstrated that DNA causes bacterial transformation. In 1952, Hershey and his assistant, Martha Chase, used the process by which viruses infect bacteria with their genetic information to reproduce as evidence that DNA was the genetic material, not proteins. This came to be known as the "blender experiment", because of their use of a Warring blender to stop the process of viral reproduction. ====

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- //Written by George Adamy//