Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a topic in most introductory science classes, but it can be hard to grasp the whole process. Hopefully, this makes it a bit easier. The initial description of the PCR process was discovered by the Norwegian scientist Kjell Kleppe and his colleagues and described in a paper published in 1971. Not many articles bother to mention this, but I feel it’s my duty as a good Norwegian. The heat resistant enzymes that became a key component in industrializing PCR were discovered in 1960 in Yellowstone and are also widely used in corona-virus tests.
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Sue 3 year s ago
#8 except with COVID and similar viruses. Regular soap does destroy the virus, not just wash it away.
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Greg 3 year s ago
Sue,
...it does so by breaking down the fatty layer around the virus cell wall and basically ripping it open, killing it. I think I read somewhere it takes just 22 seconds.
...it does so by breaking down the fatty layer around the virus cell wall and basically ripping it open, killing it. I think I read somewhere it takes just 22 seconds.
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Elswood 3 year s ago
Greg, A Virus is a dead thing per definition, duh.
Virus literally translated means poison.
Virus literally translated means poison.
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Bernard 3 year s ago
Elswood,By "killing", it is meant that the virus will be inactivated, unablr to maintain its structure and bind to cells for infecting them.
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Freddie 3 year s ago
#15 surströmming - Google it. Or better yet, check out reactions on YouTube
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Jennifer 3 year s ago
#1 and #18 Carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis, the base of the food chain for most organisms on Earth.
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Elswood 3 year s ago
Finally, someone with an intact brain. What do all those members of the church of climatology think, carbon based life form means?
...it does so by breaking down the fatty layer around the virus cell wall and basically ripping it open, killing it. I think I read somewhere it takes just 22 seconds.
Virus literally translated means poison.