Producing thousands of copies of a gen:PCR

PCR & CRISPR

• PCR

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used in molecular biology to make many copies of a specific DNA segment.

This is a very basic video about PCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkT6XHWne6E

Answer the following questions:

a) How can humans manipulate the DNA for our own benefit?

b) How can many copies of a gene be made for analysis?

c)  How can this used to detect the COVID-19?

• CRISPR

In this video Paull Andersen tells how the inmune system CRISPR/CAS 9 was identified in bacteria and how this system was used to edit genomes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYppmstxIs

Answer the following question:

a) How can the CRISPR be used against the COVID-19?