NCIt definition : A laboratory procedure in which an RNA strand is first transcribed into a DNA complement
and then subjected to PCR amplification. Transcribing an RNA strand into a DNA complement
is termed reverse transcription and is done by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: A molecular biology technique used to recreate and amplify complementary DNA
(cDNA) from total RNA or messenger RNA (mRNA), using reverse transcriptase and DNA
polymerase.;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping