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Beau Sharbrough

RootsWorks: Family Science

This page supports an article in the Ancestry Daily News, published July 2004.

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RootsWorks is a site devoted to the use of generic technologies in family history. 

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Feel free to discuss RootsWorks topics in the RootsWorks Forums.

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 These links illuminate the topic
Gregor Mendel link
 
Watson and Crick discover DNA structure link
Length of a DNA molecule link
How mtDNA releases energy link
A genetic distance tree example link
about.com dna tests link
Family Science and Family History are colliding. It looks similar to the Invasion of the Computer People. New converts to genealogy who know a lot about science often lack the discipline to know the limits of science. Persons well versed in genealogy often know the science only in passing. In such a situation, stereotypes are formed that don't accurately describe either domain. We've seen this before.

 

You wanna know what PCR is? Genealogy is getting more complicated all the time.

polymerase chain reaction
n. Abbr. PCR

A technique for amplifying DNA sequences in vitro by separating the DNA into two strands and incubating it with oligonucleotide primers and DNA polymerase. It can amplify a specific sequence of DNA by as many as one billion times and is important in biotechnology, forensics, medicine, and genetic research.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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