What is Taq polymerase?

Taq polymerase is an enzyme that is used by scientists in the polymerase chain reaction because it is stable at high temperatures. It is the polymerase used by a bacteria, Thermus auquatics, which lives in hot springs,

Large amounts of a sample of DNA are necessary for molecular and genetic analyses, and the polymerase chain reaction is used to amplify very small amounts of DNA. It is quick and a fairly cheap process. It was created by Kary Mullins in 1993 and can create more than one billion exact copies of the original DNA segment in a few hours. The Human Genome Project relied heavily on the polymerase chain reaction technique.