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1) How Polymerize Chain Reaction (PCR ) can detect very low amounts of DNA

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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can detect very low amount of DNA by multiplying that DNA using an enzyme and nucleotides. After multiplication DNA amount increases that can be easily detected.

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