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What is a primer? What is its role in PCR.

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A primer is a small segment of DNA that binds to a complementary strands of DNA. Primers are necessary to start the functioning of DNA polymerase enzyme because it can.t just start by itself on a single stranded piece of DNA and, therefore, are necessary in polymerase chain reaction.
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