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Taylor and colleagues proved semiconservative nanue of DNA through their experiments on Vicia Faba

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Radioactive Thymine
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Radioactive Cumine
C
Radioactive Thymidime
D
Radioactive Guanosine
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Radioactive Thymidime
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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. The experiments proved that the DNA in chromosomes also replicate semiconservatively.

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