Hershey-Chase

Shayla Brink and Haley Doster 1. what were the contributions of these scientists? They confirmed that DNA not protein is genetic material, and that DNA is hereditary

2. what experiment did they perform? the blender experiment

3. did they experiment because of an accidental discovery or did they discover something accidentally through work on something else? neither, they continued the Avery-MacLeod McCarty experiment because most assumed that protein carried the hereditary information

4.did their contribution lead to a theory or law? their contribution didn't lead to a theory or law. but they did prove that DNA is indeed genetic material.