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  4. Taylor and his colleagues proved the semi-conservative model of replication by performing experiments on (a)........... using (b)......... (a) (b) A Bacteriophage radioactive thymidine B E. coli radioactive nitrogen C Vicia faba radioactive thymidine D E. coli heavy nitrogen

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Q. Taylor and his colleagues proved the semi-conservative model of replication by performing experiments on (a)........... using (b).........
(a) (b)
A Bacteriophage radioactive thymidine
B E. coli radioactive nitrogen
C Vicia faba radioactive thymidine
D E. coli heavy nitrogen

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Experiments involving use of radioactive thymidine to detect the distribution of newly synthesised DNA in the chromosomes was performed on Vicia faba (faba beans) by Taylor and colleagues in 1958. The experiments proved that the DNA in chromosomes also replicate semiconservatively.