polymerase chain reaction

English

Noun

polymerase chain reaction (plural polymerase chain reactions)

1. (molecular biology) A technique in molecular biology for creating multiple copies of DNA from a sample; used in genetic fingerprinting etc.

Synonyms

• PCR (initialism)

Translations

Translations

• French: réaction en chaine par polymérase
• Hungarian: polimeráz-láncreakció (hu)
• Irish: imoibriú slabhrúil polaiméaráise m
• Italian: reazione a catena della polimerasi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: reacção em cadeia da polimerase
• Romanian: reacție de polimerizare în lanț f
• Spanish: reacción en cadena de la polimerasa