jan 1, 1952 - Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
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Hershey and Chase's "blender" experiment in 1952 proved that DNA carried genetic material. According to the experiment, bacteriophages only injected their DNA into host bacteria, and that the DNA served as the replicating genetic element of phages.
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