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PCR – the polymerase chain reaction (no voice over)

This animation is designed with no sound so it can be used with the activity How does PCR work? If you want to hear the process explained or read an explanation of it, you can find that in PCR – the polymerase chain reaction explained.

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Root of hair
follicle, Wellcome Images, Creative Commons 4.0
Crime scene image, Paul Fleet, licensed through 123RF Limited
Drilling
collagen from bone, Frank Vinken, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Kōwhai seeds, Roger Culos, Muséum de Toulouse,
Creative Commons 3.0

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Rights: University of Waikato
Published: 26 July 2017
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