How can you describe the polymerase chain reaction?

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Dr Yusuf Mohammad

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Polymerase chain reaction also known as PCR is a laboratory technique for rapidly producing millions to billions of copies of a specific segment of DNA, which can then be used to detect DNA and RNA.

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