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Sequence Specificity in Synthetic Polydeoxyribonucleotides

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KORNBERG has shown that enzymatic synthesis of polydeoxyribonucleic acids from mononucleotides is possible even in the absence of a primer DNA molecule1,2.

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COHEN, D., BANKS, G. Sequence Specificity in Synthetic Polydeoxyribonucleotides. Nature 203, 184 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203184a0

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