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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: sci.chem,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Blood and detecting "Pool P"
Message-ID: <2345@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 27 Nov 90 18:13:08 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.021059.16136@morrow.stanford.edu> <11159.273c4346@amherst.bitnet> <4193@kitty.UUCP> <1990Nov25.154239.17434@phri.nyu.edu> <1516@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>
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In article <1516@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>, andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes:
> In article <1990Nov25.154239.17434@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
> writes:
>> 	Would it be possible to recover enough DNA to do PCR on it?  I seem
>> to remember reading something about doing PCR on DNA from a frozen quagga
>> (a zebra-like beast which became extinct in the last ice age, now only
>> found on "rogue" games).
> 
> Quaggas became extinct about 100 years ago (in Southern Africa). Maybe
> you have the wrong animal?

If I remember correctly, two different experiments are being confused here.
The quagga DNA came from a museum specimen, possibly a hide. The PCR done
on DNA isolated from a beast which was frozen and extinct from the last
ice age came from a wooly mammoth. 

Keith Conover      ireland@ac.dal.ca