While conducting an experiment, an E. coli was placed in a medium containing radioactive thymidine for some time to replicate. Then it is again allowed to replicate, but in a normal medium. Among the given options which will be the correct observation?
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When the E. coli is placed in a medium containing radioactive thymidine for the process of replication, it results in the two strands of DNA containing radioactive thymidine’s. Consequently it is placed in normal medium and allowed to replicate again, it results in one strand being radioactive. This is because the DNA replication is semi-conservative.
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