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Taq polymerase is an enzyme that is used by scientists in the polymerase chain reaction because it is stable at high temperatures. It is the polymerase used by a bacteria, Thermus auquatics, which... Taq polymerase is an enzyme that is used by scientists in the polymerase chain reaction because it is stable at high temperatures. Large amounts of a sample of DNA are necessary for molecular and genetic analyses, and the polymerase chain reaction is used to amplify very small amounts of DNA.
The job of Taq polymerase is to move along the strand of DNA and use it as a template for assembling a new stand that is complimentary to the template. This is the chain reaction in the name polymerase chain reaction. PCR is so efficient because it multiplies the DNA exponentially for each of the 25 to 75 cycles.his is the enzyme that is in charge of replicating DNA. This is the polymerase part of the name polymerase chain reaction. 4. Nucleotides. You'll need to add nucleotides (dNTPs) so the DNA polymerase has building blocks to work with.