Which of the following statement forms the basis of $DNA$ fingerprinting?

  • A

    The relative proportions of purines and pyrimidines in $DNA.$

  • B

    Satellite $DNA$ occurring as highly repeated short $DNA$ segments.

  • C

    The relative difference in the $DNA$ occurrence in blood, skin and saliva.

  • D

    The relative amount of $DNA$ in the ridges and grooves of the fingerprints.

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$A$ : In $DNA$ fingerprinting, hybridization is done with molecular probe.
$R$ : Molecular probe is small $DNA$ segment synthesized in laboratory with known sequence that recognise complementary sequence in $RNA$

A technology, which has found immense use in solving cases of disputed parentage, is

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$DNA$ fingerprinting refers to

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.