Overview And Application Of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Theory, Methodology, and Components of PCRThe polymerase chain reaction is used to amplify DNA (or RNA). The technique was invented in 1985 by Kary B. Mullis (Smithsonian, 2004). He received the Nobel prize in 1993 for the invention. When DNA is available in minute amounts (in nano grams or micrograms) it is difficult to analyse it  through gel electrophoresis or employ it to other uses, the PCR is used to increase the amount of DNA …