Biotechnology- Principles and Processes Question 27

27. Genes of interest can be selected from a genomic library by using [NEET Kar. 2013]

(a) Restriction enzymes

(b) Cloning vectors

(c) DNA probes

(d) Gene targets

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Answer : c

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(c) A hybridization probe is a fragment of DNA of variable length which is used in DNA samples to detect the presence of nucleotide sequence (the DNA target) that are complementary to the sequence in the probe. The probe hybridize to single-stranded DNA whose base sequence allow probe target basepairing due to complementarity between the probe and target.