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amplification
(redirected from Nucleic Acid Amplification)

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amplification [‚am·plə·fə′kā·shən]
(genetics)
Treatment with an antibiotic or other agent to increase the relative proportion of plasmid to bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid.
Bulk replication of a gene library.
(science and technology)
The production of an output of greater magnitude than the input.


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