Taq polymerase

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Taq polymerase is a thermostable DNA polymerase named after the thermophilic eubacterial microorganism Thermus aquaticus, from which it was originally isolated by master's student Alice Chien et al. in 1976. Its name is often abbreviated to Taq or Taq pol.

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