Multiple choice

Who invented Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)?

  1. Kohler & Milestein

  2. Kary Mullis

  3. William Bateson

  4. Eva Engvall and Peter Perlman

  5. Robert Joseph Dole

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis. It is a biochemical technology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.