Researchers performed an experiment to investigate DNA

Last updated: 6/17/2023

Researchers performed an experiment to investigate DNA replication First they synthesized radioactively labeled nucleotides which are nucleotides that contain radioactive elements that allow them to be visualized Then they inserted the radioactively labeled nucleotides into a cell When the cell divided it incorporated the radioactively labeled nucleotides into its DNA during DNA replication The following image shows the cell s DNA before and after replication The original DNA strands are shown in blue and the DNA strands with the radioactively labeled nucleotides are shown in orange original DNA blue radioactively labeled DNA orange original DNA blue