{"id":19,"date":"2007-08-22T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2007\/08\/pcr_technique_application\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:58:46","slug":"pcr-technique-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2007\/08\/pcr-technique-application\/","title":{"rendered":"PCR &#8211; technique &amp; application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"+0\">One of the topics that you&#8217;ve probably covered in AS90718 is PCR &#8211; the polymerase chain reaction &amp; its applications. You may have read quite a bit about it. 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