{"id":7216,"date":"2020-03-20T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:22:19","slug":"polymerase-chain-reaction-pcr-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/polymerase-chain-reaction-pcr-test\/","title":{"rendered":"(Polymerase chain reaction) PCR test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/2013polymerase-chain-reaction-shakirasulehri-130911031812-phpapp02\/95\/2013-polymerase-chainreactionshakira-sulehri-3-638.jpg?cb=1378869661\" alt=\"Image result for what is polymerase chain reaction test\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said designated labs will use the conventional real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to test for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>About:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is conducted on swab collected from the back of the throat, a liquid sample from the lower respiratory tract, or a simple saliva sample. Such tests are commonly used in Influenza A, Influenza B and H1N1 virus detection.<\/li>\n<li>The PCR test uses a technique that creates copies of a segment of DNA.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Polymerase\u2019 refers to the enzymes that make the copies of DNA.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018chain reaction\u2019 is how the DNA fragments are copied, exponentially \u2014 one is copied into two, the two are copied into four, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Kary Mullis, the American biochemist who invented the PCR technique, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image1.slideserve.com\/2339272\/polymerase-chain-reaction-pcr-n.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for what is polymerase chain reaction test application\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said designated labs will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7217,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/7217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}