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Why is rubbing alcohol used to extract DNA?

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Why is rubbing alcohol used to extract DNA?

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  1. DNA is particularly insoluble in alcohol.  So treatment of an extract with alcohol will tend to make the DNA precipitate out into a cottony, white blob that is easily recovered for further study.

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