CGS NS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tas2R38, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, Dna Polymerase
17 Oct 2017
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In most eukaryotic cells there is a nucleus that contains the genome, the dna instructions or. In that cell"s genome there are two copies of each gene, one is on the chromosome from the mother and one is on the chromosome from the father. Unfortunately, the amount of dna in a cell, while providing the information for proper cell and organismal functions, is not enough to allow us to study the function of any specific gene. To do this we need to make many copies of the gene or section of the dna we are interested in and. Amplify the dna in order to help sequence the gene and better understand the variants in the gene in the whole population. The biotechnology that allows us to increase the number of copies of a certain part of gene is called the polymerase chain reaction (pcr).
