Biology A-Level
high-throughput methods
What high-throughput methods means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of high-throughput methods
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Modern automated methods in which very large numbers of small DNA fragments are sequenced in parallel by machines.
Topics that use high-throughput methods
- Using genome projects (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- comparing species
- genome
- introns and exons
- memory cells
- non-coding DNA
- potential antigens
- regulatory genes
- splicing
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