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Precision will be reduced, but yield will be increased
Optimisation of a PCR reaction is often a compromise between the competing demands for precision, efficiency and yield. Although the specific effects may vary, generally, increasing the annealing temperature will increase non-specific primer binding and reduce precision. Increasing the length of the elongation phase will reduce the proportion of incomplete newly-synthesised strands and therefore increase yield. In this case, the potential effect on efficiency is unclear. Increasing the elongation phase would increase the reaction time, but the time taken to ramp down to a lower annealing temperature would be reduced.
Which of the following true about real time PCR?

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology
  1. It is an end point quantification method
  2. It is a method for real time quantification of the PCR products
  3. It is fluorescent probe free method of quantification
  4. After real time PCR product can only be detected at the end of the PCR