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Learn how DNA thermal cycler employs polymerase chain reaction to copy DNA strands

Learn how DNA thermal cycler employs polymerase chain reaction to copy DNA strands

Specific segments of DNA are amplified (copied) in a laboratory using polymerase...

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The three-step process of the polymerase chain reaction.

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