This document discusses DNA replication and describes evidence that supports the semi-conservative model of replication proposed by Watson and Crick. It introduces the three possible models of replication - conservative, dispersive, and semi-conservative - and describes an experiment by Meselson and Stahl that provided evidence the semi-conservative model is correct. Their experiment showed that after replication, the original "heavy" DNA strands remained intact while the new "light" strands contained newly synthesized DNA. This supported the semi-conservative model where each new double helix contains one original strand and one new strand.