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polymerase chain reaction
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polymerase chain reaction

Technique developed during the 1980s to clone short strands of DNA from the genome of an organism. The aim is to produce enough of the DNA to be able to sequence and identify it. It was developed by US biochemist Kary Mullis in 1983.



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