Taylor conducted the experiments to prove semiconservative mode of chromosome replication on
Vinca rosea
Vicia faba
Drosophila melanogaster
E. coli
The use of radioactive thymidine to detect the semiconservative mode of replication of newly synthesised DNA in the chromosomes was performed on Vicia faba by Taylor and colleagues in 1958. This experiment proved that the DNA in chromosomes replicates semiconservatively.