Question

The Meselson-Stahl experiment demonstrated that DNA replication is semiconservative. In the figure, semiconservative replication is illustrated byA) AB) BC) A mix of these methods, depending on the cell typeD) C

Answer 1

DNA replication is called semiconservative because, in each copy that is made of the DNA, one of the strands comes from the template. This means that all copies of DNA retain one strand of the original DNA (semiconservative). Therefore, the image that best illustrates DNA replication is A.