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DNA amplification is one of the key DNA technologies:
* it is one of the main ways in which <DNA detection> can be done.
* it is the first step of <Illumina>[Illumina sequencing], since you need multiple copies of several parts of the genome for the method to work


DNA amplification

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DNA detection means determining if a specific DNA sequence is present in a sample.

This can be used to detect if a given species of microorganism is present in a sample, and is therefore a widely used diagnostics technique to see if someone is infected with a virus.

You could of course do full <DNA sequencing>[DNA Sequencing] to see everything that is there, but since it is as a more generic procedure, sequencing is more expensive and slow.

The alternative is to use a <DNA amplification> technique.


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