amplicon

American  

[am-pluh-kahn] / ˈæm pləˌkɑn /

noun

plural

amplicons

1. Genetics. a piece of DNA or RNA that is the template for or the product of an amplification process, in which the DNA or RNA has been duplicated.

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Example Sentences

Then, the researchers used 16s rRNA sequencing and amplicon sequencing, ultimately identifying 333 BPA-resistant bacterial species.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

Systematic improvement of amplicon marker gene methods for increased accuracy in microbiome studies.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

Gel electrophoresis confirmed that the size of the PCR product corresponded to the expected amplicon size.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017

False negatives may result in masked sequences, owing to being outside of regions covered by the amplicon scheme, having low coverage or falling within a primer binding site.

From Nature • Feb. 2, 2016

No positions were called incorrectly. b, The four consensus sequences, plus an additional sample that had missing coverage in one amplicon are shown as part of a phylogenetic reconstruction with genomes from Carroll et al.3.

From Nature • Feb. 2, 2016