degree, and, in 1952, a Master''s degree in zoology from the University of Florida By 1959, experiments and analysis such as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, the Hershey-Chase experiment, the Watson-Crick structure and the Meselson-Stahl experiment had shown DNA to be the molecule of genetic information.
After learning of the 1958 Meselson-Stahl experiments, which established our understanding of how DNA is replicated, a student inquired about the possibility of replicating this important work.