Forensics: PCR Vocabulary

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  1. 2. A persons's complete nuclear genetic make-up
  2. 4. the process of amplifying or synthesizing DNA within a test tube
  3. 5. abbreviation for the four DNA bases
  4. 9. A federally mandated database of DNA obtained from crime scenes and convicted violent offenders
  5. 11. Binding of primers to complementary sequences on the template DNA strands
  6. 13. A version of a genetic marker or locus
  7. 14. the enzyme that copies the DNA strands in a PCR reaction
  8. 15. very small repeated DNA sequences
  9. 16. The process of adding dNTPs onto the ends of the primers
  10. 17. materials needed to conduct an experiment
Down
  1. 1. to copy DNA in a PCR reaction
  2. 3. the main solutions of a PCR reactions that contains all the necessary components
  3. 6. The strand of DNA to be copied
  4. 7. Mg2+
  5. 8. a small series of nucleotides that bind to a specific sequence on a target DNA sequenxce
  6. 10. The process of melting apart to complementary DNA strands
  7. 12. the set of markers present in a DNA samples