DNA / RNA Probes

Key Questions

• Why are DNA probes useful for genetic testing?

  Dna Or Rna probes are small strand of oligonucleotides which are useful to identify the gene of interest , they have the complimentary nucleotides so they go and make pairing with our gene if interest.

  Harsh · 1 · Nov 11 2015
• How do radioactive DNA probes work?

  So radioactive DNA probes are basically single strands of DNA or RNA with a radioactive tag. Their sequence is usually the complementary of a single sequence of DNA that researchers want to find in an array of other DNA (such as a gene).

  So they tag this probe, and release it. They track it to see where it binds in the array of DNA. Once it binds, they know they've found their target DNA.

  Hope that helped :)

  Darshan Senthil · 5 · Feb 19 2015

• Why are DNA probes useful for genetic testing?
• How do radioactive DNA probes work?
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