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function in polymerase chain reaction

In polymerase chain reaction
…a heat-stable DNA polymerase called Taq, an enzyme isolated from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus aquaticus, which inhabits hot springs. Taq polymerase also led to the invention of the PCR machine.
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isolated from Thermus aquaticus

In biodiversity: Measuring biodiversity
From this organism was isolated Taq polymerase, a heat-resistant enzyme crucial for a DNA-amplification technique widely used in research and medical diagnostics (see polymerase chain reaction).
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