Talk:Daisy chaining DNA

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I was thinking of editing this stub to use simpler language and explain exactly what a daisy chain of DNA is. The change I want to make is for the article to say this: "Daisy chaining DNA is the process of when DNA undergoing PCR becomes tangled and forms a 'daisy chain.' During PCR, primers or dNTP's will eventually be used up and limit further reactions; it is when the primers deplete that causes daisy chaining. Since the denaturing and annealing processes still continue without primers, the single-stranded DNA molecules reanneal to themselves. However, this reannealing does not always occur to another complementary strand. It is this imperfect match up that causes 'tangles'. These tangles look like a daisy chain." I used this source, and will of course site it. Thoughts? (Kathryn.cc (talk) 02:20, 23 September 2015 (UTC))

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Daisy chain gene drives are not related to Daisy chaining in PCR.
I suggest removing the text pertaining to gene drives. It was incorrectly added to a completely different topic (daisy chaining of PCR products) and the text is of low quality or just plain wrong. At the very least they should be split into two separate pages. I am less familiar with the PCR-based phenomena, but I am very familiar with the gene drive one. I don't think daisy chain gene drives merit their own page when the broader category of self-limiting/localised gene drives does not have a page. Examples of other types of self-limiting designs can be found here (many of those have actually been experimentally demonstrated in contrast to daisy-chain drives): https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2020417117 OrganicCoder (talk) 15:13, 8 February 2023 (UTC)