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You grow a bacterial culture in a media containing N¹⁵ and transfer it to a media with ¹⁴. After two rounds of replication you perform a CsCl density gradient centrifugation of the DNA. How many bands will you observe what will be their intensity?

a.

One, very intense

b.

Two, equally intense

c.

Three with middle one more intense than upper and lower

d.

Three equally intense

Answer: (b).Two, equally intense

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