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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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PCR stands for Polymerase chain reaction. It is a technique that is used to amplify a single fragment of DNA to generate large copies of that particular fragment of DNA. This technique was developed by Kary Mullis in 1983.

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