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Abhishek Anand

Class 11th
Biology
2 years ago

Which property of DNA double helix led Watson and Crick to hypothesise semi-conservative mode of DNA replication? Explain.

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Watson and Crick discovered that the 2 strands of DNA are anti-parallel and complementary to every different with admire to their base sequences. This kind of association in DNA molecule brought about the speculation that DNA replication is semi-conservative. It way that the double stranded DNA molecule separates and then, every of the separated strand acts as a template for the synthesis of a brand new complementary strand. As a result, every DNA molecule might have one parental strand and a newly synthesized daughter strand. Since simplest one parental strand is conserved in every daughter molecule, it's miles called semi-conservative mode of replication.

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