For 10 points, name this laboratory technique in which thermally stable polymerases are used to amplify sections of DNA.
This technique depends on magnesium chloride donating divalent magnesium cations. Special versions of this technique depend on compounds engineered by splicing HhH domains into an enzyme that was initially isolated from Thermus aquaticus. Samples are initially heated in the denaturation step of this technique, before being cooled to around 60 degrees Celsius to allow primers to anneal to template strands. For 10 points, name this laboratory technique in which thermally stable polymerases are used to amplify sections of DNA.
This technique depends on magnesium chloride donating divalent magnesium cations.
PCR [or polymerase chain reaction]