Amplification - Definition
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
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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