Vocabulary Word
Word: anneal
Definition: reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass)
Definition: reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass)
Sentences Containing 'anneal'
While these can be welded up, it is much better to anneal the metal before this happens, to restore its workability.
During PCR, double stranded fragments first denature at ~95°C and then re-anneal when subjected to the annealing temperature.
Since driver and tester sequences are nearly identical, the excess of driver DNA fragments will anneal to homologous DNA fragments from the tester species.
However, fragments that are different between the two species will not anneal to a complementary counterpart and will be amplified by PCR.