A Scientist Adds a Single Polymerase and Primer to a Polymerase

question 2

Essay

A scientist adds a single polymerase and primer to a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)but does not add nucleotides.How many strands would be present after three replications if a single original strand was present? Explain your answer.

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