By radio·labeling these organisms, Gunther Stent confirmed the double helix structure of DNA proposed by Watson and Crick, the former of whom belonged to an informal “group” of American scientists named for these organisms. Seymour Benzer identified rII (“r-two”) loci that caused rapid function of one of these organisms. Mutations in the f·h·u·A gene conferred resistance to one of these organisms contained in the agar of the (*) Luria-Delbrück experiment. By plating UV-treated E. coli with its parent strain on the same plate, Esther Lederberg discovered one of these organisms. Radioactive phosphorus-32 and sulfur-35 were used to label the DNA and proteins in one of these organisms in the Hershey-Chase experiment. For 10 points, T4 and lambda are examples of what viruses that infect bacteria? ■END■
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| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 80 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | George Mason C | 87 | 10 |
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| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Alberta | 89 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Master and Margaritaville | 89 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 90 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland B | 91 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | UW B | 91 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | WashU Bulbasaur | 91 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Claremont A | 91 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | Toronto A | 91 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 91 | 10 |
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| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Waterloo C | 97 | 10 |
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| James McCurley | Harvard | Lexington | 102 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan D | 107 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Goober Gang | 108 | -5 |
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| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Sheffield A | 108 | 10 |
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| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSD | 116 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Toronto Metropolitan | 116 | -5 |
| Bill Zhao | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 121 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA A | 122 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brandeis | 122 | 10 |
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| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Sheffield C | 122 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | McGill B | 122 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | UW A | 123 | 10 |
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