| Apr. 18th, 2006 @ 04:48 pm Were we in the same class? |
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Today I was waiting in the biotech class' lab for the lab tech to show up with something I needed and I was talking to someone else about the mysterious pink bacteria, or MPB as I've started to affectionately call it, that I was trying to kill a while back and finally gave up on for the time being. We'd been having a long discussion about how I believe it's inside the plant tissue since only autoclaving has proven to kill it off comepletely.
Suddenly this other girl, who I believe only heard every other word we'd been saying, said "you could make it live if you added Taq". (A DNA polymerase we'd used a week before for PCR.) We looked at her wondering what she was talking about and told her that Taq wouldn't help it survive in an autoclave however she remained insistant that Taq would make the bacteria heat resistant and able to live in the autoclave. We finally got her to stop talking by telling her that even if it survived the heat, the pressure would kill it.
Were we in the same class? Last I knew one heat resistant polymerase didn't save an entire cell from being steam cooked but maybe I missed something... |
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