A similar experiment to that of Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl was conducted in 1958 by a scientist who worked on Vicia faba (faba beans). Who was this scientist?

Taylor.

The correct answer is Option (1) – Taylor.

An experiments involving use of radioactive thymidine to detect distribution of newly synthesised DNA in the chromosomes was performed on Vicia faba (faba beans) by Taylor and colleagues in 1958. The experiments proved that the DNA in chromosomes also replicate semiconservatively.