NEET Biology question

Bacteriophage nucleic acids were labelled as (in the Hershey and Chase experiment)

(A)³²P labelled phosphateCorrect
(B)³H labelled H₂O
(C)³⁵S labelled sulphate
(D)¹⁴C labelled CO₂

Answer: (A)

Solution

Hershey and Chase labelled phage DNA using radioactive ³²P (since phosphate is a component of the nucleic acid backbone but not of most amino acids), while phage

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