You want to determine whether a person has a certain mutant gene. The process involves using restriction enzymes and a heat-stable DNA polymerase obtained from a thermophilic bacterium to amplify many copies of the gene. This process is

a. gel electrophoresis.
b. shuttling vectors.
c. PCR.
d. site-directed mutagenesis.


Ans: c. PCR.

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