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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) could even be how widely wont to rapidly make millions to billions of copies of a selected DNA sample, allowing scientists to wish a really small sample of DNA and amplify it to an outsized enough amount to review intimately . If the polymerase used was heat-susceptible, it might denature under the high temperatures of the denaturation step. Before the use of Taq polymerase, DNA polymerase had to be manually added every cycle, which was a tedious and costly process.Using PCR, copies of very small amounts of DNA sequences are exponentially amplified during a series of cycles of temperature changes.  PCR employs two main reagents – primers (which are short single strand DNA fragments referred to as oligonucleotides that are a complementary sequence to the target DNA region) and a DNA polymerase. In the initiative of PCR, the 2 strands of the DNA helix are physically separated at a heat during a process called macromolecule denaturation. In the second step, the temperature is lowered and therefore the primers bind to the complementary sequences of DNA. The two DNA strands then become templates for DNA polymerase to enzymatically assemble a replacement DNA strand from free nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. As PCR progresses, the DNA generated is itself used as a template for replication, setting in motion a sequence reaction during which the first DNA template is exponentially amplified.    

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