In a typical microbiology laboratory, reasons for no bands from a gel of a polymerase chain...

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In a typical microbiology laboratory, reasons for no bands froma gel of a polymerase chain reaction may be due to errors relatingto omission of ingredients in the reaction mix and absence of thetarget sequence in the template DNA. Based on (i) primer problemand (ii) purity/potential contamination of the target sequence,explain the reasons for non-appearance on bands.

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PCR or polymerase chain reaction is the inviitro amplification of DNA sequence The reaction requires Various things to be mixed properly and then the reaction are allowed to run in PCR machine Reason for no bands in the gel may be many like    See Answer
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