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liquid nitrogen (-170 C) which it freeze the tissue to become fragile to be a fine powder which increase the surface area of extraction, and the very low temperature prevent DNase activation

* the primary function of this step is to lyse the cells

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Liquid nitrogen is often used in the cell disruption portion of DNA extraction. Tissue is quickly frozen with liquid nitrogen and then ground into a powder. This allows cells to be broken open.

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It freezes the cell, easy to break cell wall, finer powder produced, higher yield of DNA.

It also keeps harmful chemicals and natural enzymes (e.g. nucleases) deactivated due to its very low temperature.

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1.) used to freeze the plant tissue and blend it to powder.

2.) minimize DNA degradation when grinding samples

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Cheap, easy, fast, and food tastes fresher.

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liquid nitrogen is employed to break down cell wall material and allow access

to DNA while harmful cellular enzymes and chemicals remain inactivated

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It is cheap, plentiful, non toxic, EXTREMELY cold and fairly easy to transport.

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