Amplification
Generally,
amplification
is a
basic process
sometimes seen in nature, and often used in
processes
which involve a
signal
which must be made stronger.
In
linguistics
, an
amplification
is a
figure of speech
that adds importance to or makes the most of a statement, to increase its rhetorical effect.
In
molecular biology
,
amplification
(
polymerase chain reaction
or
PCR
) is the method for creating multiple copies of
DNA
(or
RNA
) without using a living organism, such as E. coli or yeast.
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disambiguation
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