In conservative replication, what happens to the parent strands?

In conservative replication, the original double-stranded DNA helix remains completely intact while an entirely new double-stranded DNA helix is synthesized. This means that after replication, the two resulting DNA molecules consist of one helix that is made up of the original parental strands and another helix that consists solely of newly synthesized strands. This method of replication contrasts with other mechanisms where the parent strands may be partially or fully incorporated into the new strands or degraded in the process. The concept of conservative replication helps to explain how genetic information is preserved exactly in one of the daughter DNA molecules while a completely new version is created in the other.