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The thermostable enzyme Taq DNA polymerase, widely used in PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), was originally isolated from which bacterium?

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1Escherichia coli
2Streptomyces albus
3Thermus aquaticus✓
4Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Thermus aquaticus

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