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Semiconservative replication of was first demonstrated in:

  1. A
    Escherichia coli
  2. B
    Streptococcus pneumoniae
  3. C
    Salmonella typhimurium
  4. D
    Drosophila melanogaster

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The semiconservative nature of replication was first experimentally proven by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 using the bacterium Escherichia coli () and heavy isotope of nitrogen ().

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Semiconservative replication of was first demonstrated in:
A
Escherichia coli
B
Streptococcus pneumoniae
C
Salmonella typhimurium
D
Drosophila melanogaster

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