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Ch. 15 - Recombinant DNA Technology and Its Applications

Chapter 15, Problem 6

The human genome is 3×10⁹ bp. You wish to design a primer to amplify a specific gene in the genome. In general, what length of oligonucleotide would be sufficient to amplify a single unique sequence? To simplify your calculation, assume that all bases occur with an equal frequency.

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