Theory. Polymerase chain reaction, better known as PCR, is one of the technologies that not only made a tremendous impact on the scientific community, but also affected many aspects of our everyday lives.rogramming PCRs. PCR is an iterative process, consisting of 3 elements; denaturation of the template by heat, annealing of the oligonucleotide primers to the single stranded target sequence(s), and extension of the annealed primers by a thermostable DNA polymerase.
The smallest prime number, according to primality as defined by modern mathematicians, is 2. To be prime, a number must be divisible only by itself and 1. All other numbers are known as composites. Continue Reading.
Euclid proved centuries ago that there is an infinite number of primes, but no oneâs ever found a formula to find them, so the process of seeking them out in numbers so large is a tedious one. So tedious that itâs taken four years to beat the previous largest-known prime. The previous largest-known prime was 243,112,609 â 1, which when written out is a little under 13 million digits long, but 257,885,161 â 1 just crushed it, coming in at 17 million digits long.