THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA REPLICATION
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Question
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Each strand has half of the original strand of DNA in it
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The DNA likes to hide some of its base pairs
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Its playing hide and seek
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Each strand has one base from the original strand
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Detailed explanation-1: -Semiconservative replication is so named because one of the strands of DNA in each of the two copies of DNA is ancient and conserved while the other is newly produced at the moment of replication.
Detailed explanation-2: -Each new DNA molecule contains one strand from the original molecule and one newly synthesized strand. The term for this mode of replication is “semiconservative, ” because half of the original DNA molecule is conserved in each new DNA molecule.
Detailed explanation-3: -DNA replication is said to be semi-conservative because of the process of replication, where the resulting double helix is composed of both an old strand and a new strand. Each strand of the double helix DNA would serve as a template for synthesis of a new strand.