You Learn That a Mars Lander Has Retrieved a Bacterial

Multiple Choice

You learn that a Mars lander has retrieved a bacterial sample from the polar ice caps. You obtain a sample of these bacteria and perform the same kind of experiment that Meselson and Stahl did to determine how the Mars bacteria replicate their DNA. Based on the following equilibrium density gradient centrifugation results, what type of replication would you propose for these new bacteria?

A) conservative
B) semiconservative
C) dispersive
D) semiconservative or dispersive
E) conservative or dispersive