Team:Greenfield IN-Rihm-HS/May 4, 2011

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May 4, 2011

Today we learned about primers, how to design them, and how they work. To design a primer, you have to take the last 20 base pairs of your first part, and the first 20 base paris of your second part. This creates a 40 base pair sequence that is your new primer. When the DNA is denatured, the beginning of the primer recognizes the last 20 base pairs of your first part. DNA polymerase then replicates the new strand, with the added primers. This new strand