I added 10uM of primer instead of 0.5uM in a 10uL PCR reaction. What are the expected results? Will the amplification of the desired product happen by any chance?
The primer and NTPs are always in large excess in the pcr reaction so I would expect to get the correct product. Because there is a lot too much primer I would also expect increased annealing to other regions of the genome resulting in extra non specific bands. It is alsp probable that you will get a strong primer dimer amplimer resulting in a blurred band at about 50 bp which will make the pcr look a bit messy
If you accidentally used 20X too much primer, then the reaction would probably fail. I've seen it happen when someone didn't dilute out the stock 100 micro molar primer to a 10 micro molar working solution. No amplification from any DNA samples.
How did your reactions turn out? In my experience, the reactions don't work and you get a massive primer dimer band.
In my lab, we keep the stock solutions in the original tubes and make the working dilutions in 1.5 ml snap top tubes so it's easy to tell the difference between stock and working. Everyone has their own diluted primers too, which helps to prevent accidental contamination of the stocks.