Discuss briefly how a probe is used in molecular diagnostics.

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(N/A) single-stranded $DNA$ or $RNA$,tagged with a radioactive molecule (probe),is allowed to hybridize to its complementary $DNA$ in a clone of cells,followed by detection using autoradiography.
The clone having the mutated gene will not appear on the photographic film because the probe will not have complementarity with the mutated gene.

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