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Radioactive Thymine Is Added to Media Containing One Actively Dividing

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Radioactive thymine is added to media containing one actively dividing E. coli bacterium. Which of the following outcomes would be seen after a single cell division?


A) One of the daughter cells, but not the other, would have radioactive DNA.
B) Neither of the two daughter cells would be radioactive.
C) All four bases of the DNA would be radioactive.
D) DNA in both daughter cells would be radioactive.

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