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Different Modes of Replication

The document discusses three modes of DNA replication: conservative replication produces daughter strands that are entirely new and parental strands that remain together; semi-conservative replication involves each new DNA molecule containing one parental strand and one newly synthesized daughter strand; dispersive replication breaks and randomly recombines the original DNA before unwinding to serve as templates, resulting in daughter strands with alternating segments of parental and new DNA interspersed on both strands.

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Different Modes of Replication

The document discusses three modes of DNA replication: conservative replication produces daughter strands that are entirely new and parental strands that remain together; semi-conservative replication involves each new DNA molecule containing one parental strand and one newly synthesized daughter strand; dispersive replication breaks and randomly recombines the original DNA before unwinding to serve as templates, resulting in daughter strands with alternating segments of parental and new DNA interspersed on both strands.

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DIFFERENT MODES OF REPLICATION

Conservative DNA replication:

It produces one helix made entirely of old DNA and one helix made entirely of new DNA. The
conservative method of replication suggests that parental DNA remains together and newly-
formed daughter strands are also together.

Semi conservative DNA replication:


The semi-conservative method of replication suggests that the two parental DNA strands serve
as a template for new DNA and after replication, each double stranded DNA contains one strand
from the parental DNA and one new (daughter) strand
In semi conservative DNA replication, each new DNA molecule has one old strand and one new
strand.

Dispersive replication:
A form of DNA replication in which the original DNA chain breaks and recombines in a random
fashion before the double helix structure unwinds and separates to act as a template for mRNA
synthesis. The dispersive method of replication suggests that, after replication, the two daughter
DNAs have alternating segments of both parental and newly synthesized DNA interspersed on
both strands.

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