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Mul⋅lis

[muhl-is]
–noun
Kar⋅y Banks [kair-ee, kar-ee] , born 1944, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1993.
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Mul·lis   (mŭl'ĭs)   
American biochemist. He shared a 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising the polymerase chain reaction technique, which is used in genetic engineering studies to make trillions of copies of a single fragment of DNA in a very short time.
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