arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction

arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction

[‚ar·bə¦trer·ə·lē ¦prīmd pə¦lim·ə‚rās ′chān rē‚ak·shən] (cell and molecular biology) A deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fingerprinting technique in which one short arbitrary primer is used to amplify multiple DNA fragments of different length, which yield a fingerprint after separation in gel electrophoresis. Also known as random amplification.