polymerase chain reaction

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005077",
  "term": "polymerase chain reaction",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers).",
  "abbreviation": "PCR",
  "synonyms": [
    "DNA amplification (in vitro)",
    "DNA amplification technique",
    "RNA amplification (in vitro)",
    "amplification (genetic technique)",
    "gene amplification (technique)",
    "multiplex polymerase chain reaction"
  ],
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "genetic techniques and protocols",
    "nucleotide sequences",
    "nucleic acid annealing",
    "genotyping errors",
    "allelic dropouts",
    "hybridization chain reaction",
    "melting curve analysis",
    "DNA primers",
    "recombinase polymerase amplification",
    "target region amplification polymorphism",
    "rapid amplification of cDNA ends",
    "genome walking",
    "quantitative polymerase chain reaction",
    "mismatch amplification mutation assay",
    "amplified fragment length polymorphism",
    "random amplified polymorphic DNA technique",
    "reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction",
    "simple sequence length polymorphism"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "reacción en cadena de la polimerasa"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/polymerase-chain-reaction/"
}