Template:Polymerase chain reaction

v t e Polymerase chain reaction techniques
Procedure	Initialization Cycle Denaturation Annealing Elongation Final elongation Final hold
Polymerase	Klenow T4 and T7 Taq Tth Pfu Vent Pwo Tli Tfu
Optimization and variants	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) Inverse polymerase chain reaction (inverse PCR) Nested polymerase chain reaction (nested PCR) Touchdown polymerase chain reaction Hot start PCR Overlap extension polymerase chain reaction (OE-PCR) Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (multiplex PCR) Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) Co-amplification at lower denaturation temperature PCR (COLD-PCR) Random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
History and people	Kary Mullis Kjell Kleppe Alice Chien