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Correlation of Meselson and Stahl with “multifork” replication in E.coli

It is sometimes considered that the result was an artifact for a reason similar to that which you mention. However, it happened to be correct in its conceptual outcome, and was not rejected by ...
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Calculating Possible Combinations of Bases in a DNA Strand of a Given Length

Unfortunately @Remi.B is wrong. His answer allows the choice of any base for each position. This includes arrangements such as AAAAAAAA which is not possible as there are only two A bases. User40950 ...
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Is it possible to plant tardigrade DNA into a human? What would happen even if?

Yes, parts of tardigrade DNA that code for specific proteins or abilities could potentially be isolated and inserted into human cells in vitro. Getting them into a living human is technically possible,...
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Can DNA reveal an approximate chronological generation of a person?

Briefly, no. There may be an argument for using similarity to previously observed archaic hominin genomes that you could impute the age by similarity to e.g. Neanderthals. But those would be very old ...
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Preserving a sample for mtDNA and nuclear DNA analysis

For anyone curious, @Darlingtonia's answer is what I needed. It also gave me the search terms that Google could use to finally find further useful information. In particular, a paper published at ...
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Preserving a sample for mtDNA and nuclear DNA analysis

If you're wanting to store DNA long-term at room temperature, you'll probably want to dry it. DNA extraction methods have been known since 1869. You can then use ethanol to precipitate the DNA, ...
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