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During pcr, where does the energy come from that adds the nucleotide to the growing dna strand?.

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The process uses a complementary, single strand of DNA as a template. The energy required to drive the reaction comes from cutting high energy phosphate bonds on the nucleotide-triphosphate's used as the source of the nucleotides needed in the reaction.
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