When a protein exists in mono-, di- and tri-phosphorylated forms. The difference of a couple of phosphate groups has no significant effect on the overall relative molecular mass of the protein, hence a single band on SDS gels, but the small charge difference introduced on each molecule can be detected by

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RFLPs have several unique advantages except this one;

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Name of that sophisticated equipment which used to the oligonucleotide, that serve as a primer in RAPDs is usually obtained by in vitro DNA synthesis,

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In RAPDs amplification will take place only of those regions of the genome that have the 

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Correct statements about RAPD’s

A. RAPD polymorphism is detected by using oligonucleotides usually more than 10 bases long of random sequences as primers in a reaction.

B. In a strain which has in genomic DNA sequences complementary to the primer oligonucleotide, PCR products will be detected in the gel,

C. Typical RAPD markers show limited variation between parents, especially in naturally inbreeding species.

D. RAPDs are more sensitive than RFLPs to experimental conditions making them more difficult to be consistent and reproducible.

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Statement: AFLP shares some features of both RFLP and RAPD analyses.

Explanations: I. It uses restriction enzyme-digested genomic DNA as template for PCR amplification using primers that contain the restriction enzyme recognition sites plus a number of, usually 2-3, arbitrary nucleotides.

II. AFLPs are faster, less labour intensive and provide more information than RFLPs, and they are highly reproducible, which is a great advantage over RAPDs.

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Statement: In a modified version of AFLP, the selection of fragments using biotin-streptavidin binding is avoided.

Explanations: I. The fragments are ligated to the appropriate adapters and used for PCR amplification using two AFLP primers, each primer having a single selection nucleotide; this is called preamplification step.

II. The PCR products from this preamplificated step are diluted and used as template for second PCR amplification.