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Martha Cowles Chase (November 30, 1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein, [1] was an American geneticist who in 1952, with Alfred Hershey, experimentally helped to confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life.
In heredity: DNA as the agent of heredity. Hershey and Martha Chase prepared two populations of bacteriophage particles. In one population, the outer protein coat of the bacteriophage was labeled with a radioactive isotope; in the other, the DNA was labeled.
Aug 13, 2003 · Martha Chase, who was half of a scientific team that in 1952 used a kitchen blender to help prove that DNA is the molecule that carries genetic information, died on Aug. 8 in Lorain, Ohio, a...
Jun 23, 2019 · In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, that verified genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
May 14, 2022 · In 1952 (seven years after Avery's demonstration that genes were DNA), two geneticists: A. D. Hershey and Martha Chase, provided further proof. They worked with a DNA virus, called T2, which infects E. coli (and so is a bacteriophage).
Martha Jenks Chase (née Martha Jenks; 1851–1925) was a doll designer, manufacturer, entrepreneur, and Progressive reformer based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Feb 15, 2018 · Thanks to her love of science and her passion for puzzles, Dr. Martha Chase was able to solve one of the greatest puzzles in the history of modern science. For that, she will always be remembered.
Chase, Martha Cowles (1927- ) American geneticist. Martha Cowles Chase is remembered for a landmark experiment in genetics carried out with American geneticist Alfred Day Hershey (1908 – 1997). Their experiment indicated that, contrary to prevailing opinion in 1952, DNA was genetic material.
Aug 20, 2003 · Martha Chase, renowned for her part in the pivotal " blender experiment ," which firmly established DNA as the substance that transmits genetic information, died of pneumonia on August 8 in Lorain, Ohio. She was 75.
How Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase showed conclusively that DNA is the genetic material.
