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explain what a pcr reaction is.
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polymerase chain reaction (pcr) is a technique used for amplifying short segments of dna to produce thousands to millions of copies of a particular dna sequence. it is carried out in a cyclic manner through a number of temperature cycles, creating multiple copies of the target dna sequences in a very rapid and cost-effective way.
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