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Briefly describe what is meant by the semiconservative nature ofDNA
replication?

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The semi-conservative nature of DNA refers to when replication ends, the result is two new double helices composed of a parental DNA chain and a complementary chain of newly synthesized DNA. That is to say that each parental DNA chain serves as a template to make a new complementary chain.

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