Which Technique Is Used to Create Billions of Copies of DNA

question 38

Multiple Choice

Which technique is used to create billions of copies of DNA in a short amount of time?

• A) polymerase chain reaction
• B) recombinant DNA technology
• C) short tandem repeat (STR) profiling
• D) gene therapy
• E) none of the above

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Definitions:

Classes

Categories or groups into which data can be divided based on certain characteristics or attributes.

Relative Frequencies

The measures showing the number of times a certain event occurs in relation to the total number of events, often expressed as a percentage or fraction.

Sample Size

The number of observations or entities included in a sample, which represents a portion of the total population.

Cumulative Frequency

The running total of frequencies up to a certain point in a set of data.