PCR – when you need to find out who your daddy is

Posted on January 16, 2008 by under Funny, Science & Technology [ Comments: 3 ]

I don’t get it.

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Thanks to Dr. Mike Pecaut for passing this along.


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3 Comments

  1. Brian Angliss, January 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm :

    Polymerase Chain Reaction, the self-assembly technique by which DNA is sequenced. It was a huge breakthrough when it was first developed. The idea is that you chop the DNA up into lots of little bits which are then replicated in a bath of DNA components (the GTAC “letters” of DNA) lots and lots and lots of times. Then you use a powerful computer to match up the ends of the bits to make a complete gene or chromosome.


  2. Dr. Slammy, January 16, 2008 at 8:56 pm :

    Thanks. That helps a lot.


  3. Euphrosyne, January 16, 2008 at 9:24 pm :

    This is frickin’ hysterical! Is that who I think it is doing the Dylan riff?


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