Mukund's Brief Overview of Synthetic Biology

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Q- When you add mud to water, what can you see? A- Sedimentation of mud; darkish coloured water

Q-When you add sugar to water,what can you see? A-Nothing.

Q-When you add DNA to water, what can you see? A-Nothing.

How does light pass through solid material? a)Scattering b)Absorption c)Flourescence

  • There is one major problem with DNA, that is, its too small to see - even with high levels of magnification.Some of the ways of attempting to see them are through:

a) Dyes b) Quantity c) Length

Some Basics of DNA cloning:

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