Among the sequences from the novel that ultimately didn’t make it into Spielberg’s Jurassic Park are an eight-year-old girl’s near-fatal encounter with Basiliscus amoratus (later adapted for ...
The 5' exonuclease activity of Taq polymerase triggers the release of a fluorescent dye upon hybridization of the probe with its complementary sequence, resulting in the cleavage of the dye.