This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
Buy this image as a print
BuyLicense this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library
LicenseAn inactive DNA cloning kit. Full view, black, matt background.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Two inactive M13 cloning kits for production of single stranded template DNA by Amersham International plc, 1987
M13 is a bacteriophage – a virus that infects certain types of bacteria – which contains a single strand of DNA. Sold for laboratory use only, this now inactive M13 kit was used to clone a single strand of DNA. As DNA normally exists elsewhere as a double helix structure, this single strand or template acts as a master copy and is used to generate DNA replication. The kit was made by Amersham International plc.
Details
- Category:
- Biochemistry
- Object Number:
- 1987-1212
- Materials:
- plastic
- Measurements:
-
overall: 62 mm x 141 mm x 97 mm, .12kg
- type:
- cloning kit
- credit:
- Amersham International plc
