DNA I & II
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biology
presentation
date published 02/10/2007
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DNA technology is vital to our technological progress as a society. Without such things as gene therapy which is part of DNA technology many medical feats would not have been accomplished. DNA manipulation is used in many aspects of life, ranging from farms to hospitals and the gene cloning we attempted in our lab was but a precursor to all these great advances.
- Introduction
- The DNA manipulation can lead to many advances and understanding how DNA works is important not only for the scientist but also for the general public
- Gel electrophoresis is a method used to separate DNA fragments for analysis and size comparison
- In the second week of the DNA lab (Part II), we resuspended the DNA pellet in 20µl TE buffer and vortexed the solution
- After everything was done, we mixed the restriction enzyme digests with the blue dye solution containing xylene cyanol and bromophenol blue
- Written Results
- The control gels in the experiment did not run out all the way making the result hard to interpret.
- The BglI cut at around 1700 and 1400 and the EcoRI and BglI cut at 1400 and 1600 base pairs, because the lightest ones go the farthest.
- Discussion
