to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race. to use or manage (natural resources) wisely; preserve; save: Conserve the woodlands. Physics, Chemistry. to hold (a property) constant during an interaction or process: the interaction conserved linear momentum.
Using a bacteriophage (virus) and the bacterium Escherichia coli, Hershey and Chase were able to show that only viral DNA entered the host; thus it was DNA that directed the production of new viral particles. This strongly suggested that DNA was the genetic material. 1  Take a tour of the Hershey-Chase Experiment.
Four years after Franklinâs death, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for discovering the helical structure of the DNA molecule without any recognition for Franklin. Hence, the historical credit for the great discovery of the structure of DNA was awarded without any proper acknowledgment to Franklin's contribution to share the enormous public recognition.