A primer is a short RNA sequence or DNA sequence that gets sort of the process of replication jump started, and that's just because of the biological properties of DNA polymerase that that primer's needed.

引物是一段短的RNA或者DNA序列,引物是整个复制的起点,因为DNA聚合酶的,生物特性,引物在复制过程是必不可少的

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