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Researchers carried out a study on the prey of predatory ground beetles. They removed thecontents of the guts of beetles which had been feeding and analysed them to see if they couldidentify the species they had fed on.In one study, to see if the method worked, they fed the beetles on earthworms of the speciesAllolobophora chlorotica only.DNA was extracted from the gut contents and analysed.(a) The quantity of worm DNA in the beetle gut was very small.Describe how sufficient DNA was produced to carry out the analysis.
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