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How and why is the bacterium Thermus aquatics employed in recombinant DNA technology? Explain.

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Thermus aquaticus produces enzyme Taq polymerase It is a thermostable polymerase used in Polymerase Chain Reaction. Taq polymerase is able to withstand high temperature in PCR.
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