IMG_0930 [Saving California’s Big Bird]

By
Thalia
– October 16, 2012
After my fellow interns and I completed our DNA analysis and polymerase chain reactions, we put our tubes containing the reactions in a machine called a thermocycler. The thermocycler makes the many temperature changes necessary to generate the billions of copies of the target region. Using the thermocycler, scientists at the Beckman Center can discover the sex of California condors and have a successful breeding program.