Friday, June 19, 2009

PCR - Plus

In the shot: PCR machine, pipettes, enterotube, petri dishes

In the lab but not used with PCR: The other items are all reasonable candidates to add to the same bench in this type of lab.

Uses: DNA analysis when you've only got a little blood... You can make lots of copies of a specific piece of DNA.

Labs use Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machines to detect and amplify a specific DNA sequence against the background of a complex genome. This procedure is very powerful because it can be used on fragments of DNE that are initially present in infinitesimally small quantities.

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