NEET 2021 · Class 12

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

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

  1. (A)Satellite DNA
  2. (B)Repetitive DNA
  3. (C)Single nucleotides
  4. (D)Polymorphic DNA

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DNA fingerprinting involves identifying differences in some specific regions in DNA sequence called as **repetitive DNA**, because in these sequences, a small stretch of DNA is repeated many times.

Chapter
Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Section
5.10 DNA FINGERPRINTING
Page
26
Words matched
29 of 29

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