suppose that you provide an actively dividing culture of E. coli bacteria with...

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...radioactive thymine.? What would you expect to happen if a cell replicated its DNA and divided once in the presence of the radioactive base?

A) one of the daughter cells, but not the other would have radioactive DNA.
B) neither daughter cell would have radioactive DNA
C) all four bases of the DNA would be radioactive
D) radioactive thymine would pair with nonradioactive guanine
E) DNA in both daughter cells would be radioactive
 
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