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Bacteria are grown in a medium containing 15NH4Cl for a number of generations so that all of the DNA is made of fully "heavy" DNA.The bacteria are moved to a new medium and grown in 14NH4Cl so that all new DNA will be "light".If replication were dispersive,what would the DNA look like after two generation times.


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Expected Value

A calculation in probability theory representing the average outcome one can expect from a random event, when considering all possible outcomes and their probabilities.

Variance

A statistical measure that represents the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean.

Laws of Expected Value

Theorems in probability theory that describe the behavior of the expected value of a random variable, including properties like linearity.

Probability Distribution

This function computes the likelihood of various potential outcomes of an experiment.

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