what are the similarities of hybridization test and target amplification test
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Both the hybridization tests and the target amplification tests are tests used in molecular biology to study nucleic acids.
Hybridization is a phenomenon in which molecules of single-stranded nucleic acids anneal together with the complementary strands of the nucleic acid under specific experimental and physiological conditions.
Target amplification is a method which is used to increase the number of target molecules in order to identify a specific molecular species. The target can be specific sequences of DNA, RFLP's etc.
PCR and Hybridization of species-specific probes are examples of target-amplification tests.
Both the tests are used to increase the number of copies of a specific part of a nucleic acid or the whole strands to study any mutations etc.