1. Aug 24, 2014 #1

   Richard_Steele

   16

   I want to know what material is needed if I want to extract the DNA of a plant and show it in a computer.

    
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3. Aug 24, 2014 #2

   jedishrfu

   4,164

   Staff: Mentor

   You can't do it directly without using a DNA sequencer and some software to put the snippets together.
   
   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing
   
   If the goal is to show it on a computer then someone may have already sequenced it for you and it might be available online.

    
4. Aug 24, 2014 #3

   Richard_Steele

   16

   Thanks for the information. Now I've a little bit more data for searching it. :thumbs:

    
5. Aug 25, 2014 #4

   Yanick

   401

   Hunt around at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
   
   Tons of databases there. There is a learning curve involved when trying to find and then analyze the data contained, but it isn't too difficult.

    

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