jan 1, 1958 - Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
Description:
These scientists concluded that DNA was replicated semi-conservatively. They used E. Coli to show that when the E. Coli was replicated it contained a portion of both “parents” DNA. As the generations went on, the amount of similarities between the original DNA and the offspring decreased. This experiment was done in 1958.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1958
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~ 67 years ago