Use Figure 16.1 to Answer the Following Questions

question 68

Short Answer

Use Figure 16.1 to answer the following questions.

Figure 16.1
-In the late 1950s, Meselson and Stahl grew bacteria in a medium containing "heavy" nitrogen (¹⁵N)and then transferred them to a medium containing ¹⁴N. Which of the results in Figure 16.1 would be expected after one round of DNA replication in the presence of ¹⁴N?

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Externality Analysis

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