Q. Alec Jeffreys developed the DNA fingerprinting technique. The probe he used was
A) Ribozyme
B) Sex chromosomes
C) SNP
D) VNTR
Explanation
The technique of fingerprinting was initially developed by Alec Jeffreys. He used a satellite DNA as probe that shows very high degree of polymorphisms. It was called as Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR).
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