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The experiments of Hershey and Chase, giving evidence that DNA is the genetic material, have been greatly simplified and modified in subsequent descriptions. Students are in danger of receiving a quite misleading impression of the process of scientific discovery.
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Wyatt, H. How history has blended. Nature 249, 803–805 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249803a0
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