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Chapter 20, Problem 4TYU
A paleontologist has recovered a bit of tissue from the 400-year old preserved skin of an extinct dodo (a bird). Tocompare a specific region of the DNA from a sample vvith DNA from living birds, which of the following would be most useful for increasing the amount of dodo DNA available for testing?
- (A) SNPanalysis
- (B) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- (C) electroporation
- (D) gel electrophoresis
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