An introduction to PCR and its impact with a downloadable poster for students aged 16+ years.
The resource consists of a poster and a set of teaching materials that includes information, classroom activities and quizzes. Free full size posters can be ordered from the ABPI site or downloaded in pdf format.
One of the new horizons in medicine series
Each resource consists of a poster and a set of teaching materials that includes information, classroom activities and quizzes. Full size posters can be ordered from the ABPI site or downloaded in pdf format.
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Just imagine ......
a technology enabling us to extract a tiny quantity of DNA from a single hair or drop of blood at the scene of a crime and increase the amount of it a million times or more so that it can be analysed
a technology allowing us to analyse the DNA from a bacterial or viral infection in order to diagnose an illness
a technology that makes it possible to mass-produce DNA from fossil remains, extinct for millions of years
This technology exists - it is the polymerase chain reaction.
Image: Amnio PCR
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