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Molecular Basis Of Inheritance

Question
CBSEENBI12000309

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

Solution
Watson and Crick hypothesized that DNA replication is semi-conservative because after replication the Daughter DNA had one parental strand and one newly synthesized strand. Thus beacuse of the conservation of one parental strand in the daughter DNA, the replication was called semi-conservative.