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Polymerization Chain Reaction: A Technique-Review

Supriya Sharma

Abstract


According to Mark R. Hughes, Deputy Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health, "PCR is the most important new scientific tool to come along in the previous hundred years". The basic scientific truth that makes PCR so effective here is that every living organism's genome material (plants and animals, bacteria or virus) has sequences of its nucleotide building blocks (typically DNA, sometimes RNA) that are unique and particular to that species. Nevertheless, complex organisms like humans have Genomic information that is unique and exclusive to each individual. These distinct variances allow researchers to track genetic information back to its source, determining at a minimum the species of organism it came from and, in many cases, which specific member of that species.


Keywords


PCR, Gene, Template, Technique

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijger.v8i1.744

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