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1
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What are degenerate primers?

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A pool of primers that bind to all variations of the target sequence

2
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How are the primers designed?

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Use amino acids that are coded for by 2 codons (C, D, E, F, H, K, N, Y) or 1 codon (M, W) to estimate what the triplet codon sequence is

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What is codon bias?

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Organisms will use certain codons over others to make amino acids