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From: forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes)
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Subject: Re: Blood and detecting "Pool P"
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In article <1990Nov25.154239.17434@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:

>Actually, it just occurred to me that red blood cells don't have DNA, if I
>remember correctly, but maybe some other component of blood does?

You are correct. Mammalian erythrocytes do not have a nucleus and therefore
no DNA. Other cellular components of blood do have a nucleus, but the 
concentration is much less than the erythrocytes. Avian erythrocytes do
have a nucleus.



Jeff Forbes

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