polymerase chain reaction

Taq polymerase is used to replicate targeted portions of the genome during a cycle of heating and cooling. The process may be repeated thirty or forty times to get the right quantity of DNA by Gautam Rangan
www.grangan.com

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Education

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• DNA
• polymerase chain reaction
• PCR
• P.C.R.
• Gautam Rangan
• Gautam
• Rangan

[hf03ngp286]

I don't see primers.

They are necessary for a PCR...

[GautamRangan]

yeah - I should probably redo this animation :)

[GautamRangan]

but I didn't include a lot of things, for instance the dNTPs in solution, the sub units of Taq Polymerase, the rest of the chromosome/genome, etc..

[roidroid]

the first 2 times it copies, it gets shorter. yes?

[GautamRangan]

true - I didn't illustrate that well in my animation, but obviously the first two cycles produce shorter daughter strands.

[jason3307]

watch this on drugs

[EvoGenVideos]

@virtualetude "What is the purpose of PCR?"

DNA amplification for various forms of testing and experimentation, such as: DNA finger printing, paternity tests, transgenics, cloning, gene therapy, etc.

[willsBoardHappy]

Primers?

[virtualetude]

What is the purpose of PCR?

[KaylaJohnson08]

It looks great...just wish it had sound so that I could know what exactly I was looking at

[IwdWb]

Your animation skills are well, but you should do it slower, so the viewers can recognize the hole parts of the PCR.

Oh and you should comment it with your voice (or the voice of another). It always better with voice ;)

Keep up the good work

[futuremarine269]

yah i was just a bout to point out that thermus aquaticus was missing but I think that it was very well done.