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11 years ago
why liquid nitrogn is added when we make crush plant leaves for genomic dna extraction?
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Liquid nitrogen (-170 C) which it freeze the tissue to become fragile to be a fine powder which increase the surface area of extraction, and the very low temperature prevent DNase activation.

* the primary function of this step is to lyse the cells.

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