TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 5215


What is it about short tandem repeat DNA that makes it useful for DNA fingerprinting?

#SCPH06 I Botany
  1. The number of repeats varies widely from person to person or animal to animal.

  2. The sequence of DNA that is repeated varies significantly from individual to individual.

  3. The sequence variation is acted upon differently by natural selection in different environments.

  4. Every racial and ethnic group has inherited different short tandem repeats.

More Questions
TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 10784

#I Life Science/ Life Sciences Group – I-V

The precursor of phenolic compound is___

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 19345

#SCPH06 I Botany

The magnetoelectric and piezoelectric are types of _____ based biosensors?

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 15893

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Calcium used in nutrition media is the main component of which part of plant cell?

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 13097

#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

You are a scientist who is using genomics to currently study a new bacterial species that no one has ever studied before. The following sequence is a piece of DNA within the coding region of a gene that you have recently sequenced.
 
If you take any bacterial gene sequence, before you begin doing any sequence analysis on it, there are six potential open reading frames. Why are there six?