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genomics on the web: you have decided that you want to repeat the hershey and chase experiment that showed that dna was the genetic material in t2 phage. to prepare the radioactively labeled phage you know you need radioactive nucleotide and radioactive protein, you find a tube labeled uridine 5'-triphosphate [γ-32p] and another tube labeled l-[35s] methionine. to prepare the labeled phage you supplement separate cultures of growing e. coli with these and then add the phage. but, you can’t find the t2 phage stock and instead find a tube of bacteriophage ms2 (though you don’t know much about it) and add it to the cultures. after a few hours of growth you assume that you have sufficient labeling of your nucleotides and proteins so you draw off the free phage from the cultures and follow the hershey and chase protocol (i.e. waring blender smoothie!). at the end, you discard the supernatant and check the pellets for radioactivity. to your great surprise you find no radioactivity with the γ-32p uridine experiment but the 35s methionine experiment did have radioactivity in the pellet. have you discovered a new mode of genetic inheritance or is there another explanation? [note: you definitely have to do some web searching outside of your text and notes to answer this one.]