n. Carotenoids, for instance, are a large class of red, yellow and orange plant pigments composed of long carbon chains with many conjugated double bonds. They contain three maxima in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum (420 nm, 450 nm, 480 nm).

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FRET is possible only when the distance between donor and acceptor are within 1 to 10 Å

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GFP chromophore comprises an oxidized form of the tripeptide –Ser65–Tyr66–Gly67–.

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The efficiency of FRET is inversely proportional to the sixth power of the distance between donor and acceptor.

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Short tandem repeats (STRs) are short repeated sequences of DNA (1–10 bp) that account for approximately  3% of the human genome.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (a 1-base repeat) and CACACACACACACACACACACA (a 2-basen repeating), CAGCAGCAGCAGCAGCAG (a 3 base repeating) are most common.

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Most STRs are found in the noncoding regions, while only about 8% locate in the coding regions.