Meselson and Stahl showed that DNA is replicated by a __________.

a) conservative model
b) semi-conservative model
c) dispersive model
d) semi-dispersive model
e) conservative model in prokaryotes and semi-conservative model in eukaryotes


Ans: b) semi-conservative model

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