18. Biotechnology

Which of the following best states the overall goal of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process?

Which of the following lists includes all the essential components and equipment required to perform a standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?

Which of the following is a common use for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique?

Why is DNA polymerase important to the PCR reaction?

What is the source of the reverse transcriptase used in recombinant DNA technology?

Which of the following enzymes is key to the automation of polymerase chain reactions (PCR)?

In the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the sequence of bases in the primers is important because it __________.

Because eukaryotic genes contain introns, their transcripts cannot be translated by bacteria, which lack RNA-splicing machinery. But if you want to engineer a bacterium to produce a eukaryotic protein, you can synthesize a gene without introns. A good way to do this is to __________.