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SOLVED: These primers are known as “degenerate” primers because there is variation in the bases present at certain sites. Why might it be advantageous to include degenerate sites in the primers?
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Table 1 from Construction of "small-intelligent" focused mutagenesis libraries using well-designed combinatorial degenerate primers. | Semantic Scholar
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Construction of “small-intelligent” focused mutagenesis libraries using well-designed combinatorial degenerate primers | BioTechniques
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