To: BillF
That would be polymerase. It's an enzyme which breaks nucleic acids into snippets. The basics behind the assay is to locate and ID lots of snippets which resemble snippets of a known source, and then you can with a high probability, claim to have identified something.
19 posted on
10/29/2001 10:05:52 PM PST by
MarMema
To: MarMema
That would be polymerase. It's an enzyme which breaks nucleic acids into snippets. The basics behind the assay is to locate and ID lots of snippets which resemble snippets of a known source, and then you can with a high probability, claim to have identified something.Wasn't PCR invented by that physicist-surfer who won the Nobel Prize (for Chemistry) for the invention?
22 posted on
10/30/2001 5:08:31 PM PST by
BillF
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