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M. Meselson and F. W. Stahl
This is to give a period of time for the DNA to grow by replication; this allows there to be enough of a sample of DNA to extract.
replication
DNA replication produces two copies of the DNA.
nitrogen
Meselson and Stahl
The experiment that supported the hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative was known as the Meselson-Stahl Experiment.
DNA polymerase
Watson and Crick mentioned it slightly in their paper but didn't propose a full method of replication. a number of different people collaborated to work out the full model of replication which is still no totaly finished, (few proteins left to find)
M. Meselson and F. W. Stahl
Meselson and Stahl conducted an experiment in 1958, and discovered that DNA replication was semiconservative. In semiconservative replication, when the double stranded DNA helix is replicated each of the two new double-stranded DNA helixes consisted of one strand from the original helix and one newly synthesized.
DNA replication begins in areas of DNA molecules are called origins of replication.
This looks like the Meselson Stahl experiement. Please see the link below.
Replication.
The process of DNA replication is semi-conservative. Which means, in the new (daughter) DNA double helices that are formed, one strand belongs to the parent strand (also referred to as the template strand) and the other is a newly synthesized strand. Subsequently, every new DNA molecule that is formed as a result of the replication process has one original parent strand and one newly synthesized complimentary strand.
density gradient centrifugation
So as to grow and sustain your life.