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Viral-infecting agent is DNA: An experiment is performed by Hershey and Chase on bacteriophage showing phenomenon of transduction. Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses. T2 is a bacteriophage which infects Escherichia coli, the bacterium occurs as commensal in human intestine. Escherichia coli can also be grown over culture medium. A.D. Hershey and Martha Chase (1952) grew two cultures of Escherichia coli. One [...]