minisatellite DNA
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DNA fingerprinting — n a technique used esp. for identification (as for forensic purposes) by extracting and identifying the base pair pattern of an individual s DNA called also DNA typing, genetic fingerprinting * * * a technique for examining nucleic acids or… … Medical dictionary
directed amplification of minisatellite DNA — Abbreviation: DAMD A polymerase chain reaction technique used for obtaining molecular markers in the region of minisatellites. To target these regions, one of the primers is directed to a VNTR core sequence … Glossary of Biotechnology
Minisatellite — This article is about the DNA sequence. For the size class of orbiting spacecraft, see miniaturized satellite. A minisatellite (also referred as VNTR) is a section of DNA that consists of a short series of bases 10 60 bp.[1][2] These occur at… … Wikipedia
DNA profiling — Not to be confused with Full genome sequencing. Forensic science … Wikipedia
minisatellite — mini·sat·el·lite sat əl .īt n any of numerous DNA segments located mainly near the ends of chromosomes that consist of repeating sequences of at least five but usu. not more than 100 nucleotides and that are useful in DNA fingerprinting compare… … Medical dictionary
minisatellite — (= variable number tandem repeat; VNTR) Class of highly repetitive satellite DNA, comprising variable (typically 10 20) repeats of short (eg. 64 bases) DNA sequences. The high level of polymorphism of such minisatellites make them very useful in… … Dictionary of molecular biology
minisatellite — A form of variable number tandem repeats in which the repeat unit size ranges from 10 100 bp. Used for DNA fingerprinting following Southern hybridization. Generally concentrated at the ends of chromosomes and in regions with a high frequency of… … Glossary of Biotechnology
Satellite DNA — consists of very large arrays of tandemly repeating, non coding DNA. Satellite DNA is the main component of functional centromeres, and form the main structural constituent of heterochromatin.[1][2] The name satellite DNA refers to how… … Wikipedia
Noncoding DNA — In genetics, noncoding DNA describes components of an organism s DNA sequences that do not encode for protein sequences. In many eukaryotes, a large percentage of an organism s total genome size is noncoding DNA, although the amount of noncoding… … Wikipedia
Junk DNA — In molecular biology, junk DNA is a provisional label for the portions of the DNA sequence of a chromosome or a genome for which no function has been identified. Scientists expect to find functions for some, but not all,Fact|date=September 2008… … Wikipedia
