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Question
Answer the following question based on Meselson and Stahl's experiment on E. coli :
Why did they allow the synthesis of the light and the heavy DNA molecules in the organism?
Solution
They allowed the synthesis of light and heavy DNA molecules in order to create observable differences in parent and newly synthesized DNA strands based on differences in the density.
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