See Also: conservative replication(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
conservative(dictionary)
replication(dictionary)
Replication(medicine)
DNA replication(health)
DNA replication(medicine)
Conservative(medicine)
replication, DNA(medicine)
semiconservative replication(medicine)

conservative replication (medicine)


conservative replication
<molecular biology> Replication of DNA in such a way that the original parent strands of the DNA molecule end up back with each other. The entire preexisting double-stranded DNA molecule is conserved during each round of replication.

Compare: semiconservative replication.