Topic: DNA replication and central dogma· Genetics and Evolution

Taylor conducted the experiments to prove semiconservative mode of chromosome replication on

1. *Vicia faba*

2. *Drosophila melanogaster*

3. *E. coli*

4. *Vinca rosea*

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Answer: 1. *Vicia faba*

Taylor and co-workers (1957) used radioactive thymidine with root tip cells of Vicia faba (broad bean) to show that chromosome replication is semiconservative.

E. coli was used by Meselson and Stahl for DNA replication, not by Taylor.

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