The "blender experiment" to prove DNA as genetic material was performed by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase in 1952. Their experiment used radioactive isotopes to label the protein and DNA of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and showed that it was the viral DNA, not the protein, that entered the bacteria to direct the production of new viruses.
The Blender Experiment to prove DNA as genetic material was performed by ______?
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