Chapter 10.L1, Problem 6WC

Summary Introduction

To analyze:

1. Why PCR is unlikely to amplify contaminating bacterial DNA in a sample of human DNA.
2. How PCR can be used to pick a gene out of a complex genome.

Introduction:

Polymerase chain reaction is a laboratory technique that uses cycles of heating and cooling, and a heat tolerant DNA polymerase to rapidly duplicate a DNA sample to make billions of copies, in a short period of time.