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From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Mammoth clones
Message-ID: <618@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Aug 88 13:42:32 GMT
References: <201200013@prism> <1364@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <2887@calmasd.GE.COM> <4786@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <12860@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <12860@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> boyle@jif.UUCP (joseph boyle) writes:
>......  So the DNA
>fragments from the quagga or mammoth or whatever could be diluted and
>split up so that each sample was only likely to contain one fragment,
>then amplified separately.

Be careful and use properly treated water to do the
dilutions with, a recent report in "Nature" suggests you could
end up with a whole mammoth if you dilute the solution enough.  :->
	Bob.