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- April 16, 2010 at 12:06 am #13115
Anonymous1ParticipantI am confused about DNA polymerase in PCR 🙁
Maybe if someone could give me a brief explanation so I could hear it in different words?
What kind of DNA polymerase is used for PCR and how did the bacterium evolve to make such a useful polymerase? Specifically, why do we use the polymerase for PCR…? What are selective factors, and evolutionary fitness.
Thank you!
- April 16, 2010 at 7:42 am #99054JackBeanParticipant
DUring DNA replications there are many proteins, some of them are unwinding the DNA. But you don’t want to put many proteins in the tube (it would be expensive and yet didn’t work properly), so you’re using temperature denaturation instead. So, you have to pick some polymerase, which could survive in like 97°C. I will guarantee you, that the human Pol would be dead, before you reached like 70°C. So, what organism you must to take ti from?
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