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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

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Minisatellites or VNTR's are used in

  • DNA fingerprinting

  • Polymerase chain reaction, (PCR)

  • gene therapy

  • Gene mapping

Solution

A.

DNA fingerprinting

Minisatellites or a Variable number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) are used in DNA fingerprinting technique. In VNTR, satellite DNA acts as a probe, that shows a very high degree of polymorphism.

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