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Estimate the number of DNA copies that will be found in tubes 2 through 5. The process began with a segment of double-stranded DNA.

Estimate the number of DNA copies that will be found in tubes 2 through 5. The process-example-1
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PCR is a method used to amplify DNA. All you need is your DNA, primers (small pieces of DNA) complementary to two sites in your DNA (one on each strand), a heat-stable polymerase (enzyme that can make DNA according to a certain template), nucleotides and a heat-cycle. By adding all the ingredients and heating and cooling the mixture in certain preprogrammed cycles, you can amplify the DNA between the two primers.

The number of double stranded DNA pieces is doubled in each cycle, so that after n cycles you have 2^n (2 to the nth power) copies of DNA. For example, after 10 cycles you have 1024 copies, after 20 cycles you have about one million copies, etc.

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it depends break it down nto gonna give answers buttt look at number four better

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