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Which property of DNA double helix led Watson and Crick to hypothesise semiconservative mode of DNA replication? Explain.

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The method of DNA replication is described as semiconservative because daughter DNA molecules is a hybrid conserving, one parental nucleotide chain and forming the second one.
Some thickness throughout the two strands having complementary purine `to` pyrimidine.
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