• Question: were you the first person to seperate DNA

    Asked by jo29 to timcraggs on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Tim Craggs answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hi Jo,

      Sadly not. Every organism has been doing it since they were born!

      But we are the first people to observe the cutting of DNA by this particular protein (called FEN1), one molecule at a time. And that is pretty awesome!

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