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Describe the roles of heat, primers and the bacterium Thermus aquaticus in the process of PCR.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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Heat - Denaturation / separation of DNA into two strands .

Primer - Enzyme DNA Polymerase extend the primers using the nucleotides provided in the reaction and genome DNA as template.

Thermus aquaticus - Source of thermostable DNA polymerase / Taq polymerase.

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