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Quantitative PCR: a method to measure very small amounts of RNA transcripts as cDNA targets. There are two strategies currently used, one is called Competitive RTPCR and the other is called Real-Time PCR.
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A laboratory procedure in which an RNA strand is first transcribed into a DNA complement and then subjected to PCR amplification. Transcribing an RNA strand into a DNA complement is termed reverse transcription and is done by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.
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A technique used to selectively replicate nucleic acid sequences from RNA templates using reverse transcriptase and RNA polymerase. Reverse transcriptase generates cDNA from the region of interest using primers and then RNA polymerase generates copies of the original RNA template.
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