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In the 1950s, the scientists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase carried out an experiment usingbacteriophages,...

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In the 1950s, the scientists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase carried out an experiment usingbacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria. During the experiment, the scientists allowedbacteriophages that had been labeled with a radioactive element to infect bacterial cells.After carrying out their experiment, the scientists concluded that bacteriophages inject DNA (a type of nucleic acid), but not protein, into host bacterial cells during infection.To be able to form this conclusion, which of the following radioactive elements did Hershey and Chase most likely find inside infected bacterial cells?Choose 1 answer:Radioactive hydrogenRadioactive phosphorusRadioactive carbonRadioactive sulfur

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