Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)? A method for amplifying a DNA base sequence using a heatstable polymerase and two 20-base primers, one complementary to the (+) strand at one end of the sequence to be amplified and the other complementary to the (-) strand at the other end. Because the n

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