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A technique used for increasing the amount of a specific segment of DNA is called

  • A.DNA replication
  • B.DNA amplification
  • C.Denaturation
  • D.VNTR

Answer: B

The technique used for increasing the amount of a specific segment of DNA is DNA amplification, option (B), which is done by the polymerase chain reaction, repeated cycles of heating, annealing the primers and extending, so that the segment is copied exponentially. DNA replication is the natural copying of the whole genome in the cell, denaturation is the separation of the two strands, which is one step of the cycle, and VNTR is a type of repeat region used in typing, so (A), (C) and (D) are wrong.

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