Who developed $DNA$ fingerprinting?

  • A
    Jacob and Monod
  • B
    Alec Jeffreys
  • C
    Har Gobind Khorana
  • D
    Griffith

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Explain the significance of $DNA$ fingerprinting in the field of forensics.

Arrange the various steps of $DNA$ fingerprinting technique in the correct order.
$(I)$ Separation of $DNA$ fragment by electrophoresis.
$(II)$ Digestion of $DNA$ by restriction endonucleases.
$(III)$ Hybridization using labeled $VNTR$ probe.
$(IV)$ Isolation of $DNA$.
$(V)$ Detection of hybridized $DNA$ fragments by autoradiography.
$(VI)$ Transferring of separated $DNA$ fragment to synthetic membranes.

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What is $VNTR$?

$DNA$ fingerprinting involves identifying differences in some specific regions in $DNA$ sequence,called as:

Repetitive sequences are stretches of $DNA$ with repeated bases many times in a genome, but
$(a)$ These sequences are of no transcriptional function
$(b)$ These are associated with euchromatin region
$(c)$ These help to identify a person on the basis of their $DNA$ specificity

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