Jan 16 2008

PCR – when you need to find out who your daddy is

I don’t get it.

Thanks to Dr. Mike Pecaut for passing this along.

3 comments on “PCR – when you need to find out who your daddy is”

  1. Polymerase Chain Reaction, the self-assembly technique by which DNA is sequenced. It was a huge breakthrough when it was first developed. The idea is that you chop the DNA up into lots of little bits which are then replicated in a bath of DNA components (the GTAC “letters” of DNA) lots and lots and lots of times. Then you use a powerful computer to match up the ends of the bits to make a complete gene or chromosome.

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