Replication of Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Non-dividing Bacteria
Abstract
DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC acid (DNA) is thought to be formed by replication. Meselson and Stahl1 have used a density-gradient centrifugation technique to show that bacterial DNA is bipartite as was proposed by Watson and Crick2 and that it reproduces in a semi-conservative fashion3, each original sub-unit being found associated, on replication, with a newly formed sub-unit.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 1961
- DOI:
- 10.1038/189398a0
- Bibcode:
- 1961Natur.189..398N