RT-PCR Differs from Basic PCR in That

question 17

Multiple Choice

RT-PCR differs from basic PCR in that:

• A) reverse temperatures are used for annealing and transcription.
• B) transcription is reversed from 5' to 3' ends.
• C) reverse transcriptase is used to synthesize a cDNA strand complementary to an RNA strand.
• D) reverse transcripase is used to synthesize an RNA strand from the DNA strand.
• E) none of the above.

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