NEET 2016 · Class 12

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Taylor conducted the experiments to prove semi-conservative mode of chromosome replication on

  1. (A)Vinca rosea
  2. (B)Vicia faba
  3. (C)Drosophila melanogaster
  4. (D)E. coli

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Very similar experiments involving use of radioactive thymidine to detect distribution of newly synthesised DNA in the chromosomes was performed on *Vicia faba* (faba beans) by Taylor and colleagues in 1958.

Chapter
Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Section
5.4.1 The Experimental Proof
Page
11
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