Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques
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...nucleotides (for example, Digoxigenin-labelled Uracil) that will bind to complementary mRNA within an embryo...WISH protocol involves preparation of the tissue sample, several washes, and temperature changes to visualize...specific antibodies that detect the mRNA-riboprobe complex are added to the tissue. The last step involves...cells that contain this mRNA-riboprobe-antibody complex and, as a result, these cells turn blue.
Students...organism of interest, use the RNA to create a complementary DNA (cDNA), and then use PCR and molecular cloning...cell types or entire organs in planarians. For example, the gene Piwi labels neoblast cells and the gene...one strand of the siRNA and are directed by complementarity to the remaining single stranded siRNA to bind...