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polymerase chain reaction: a standalone construct

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Molecular biology

repeated cycles of DNA melting, primer binding and extension by a heat-stable polymerase that copy a target sequence exponentially.

In molecular biology, polymerase chain reaction refers to repeated cycles of DNA melting, primer binding and extension by a heat-stable polymerase that copy a target sequence exponentially. This meaning comes from Saiki (1988) in Science.[1]

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References

Saiki, R. K., Gelfand, D. H., Stoffel, S., Scharf, S. J., Higuchi, R., Horn, G. T., Mullis, K. B., & Erlich, H. A. (1988). Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase. Science, 239(4839), 487-491. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2448875

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