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Comment on the utility of variability in number of tansem repeats during DNA fingerprinting .

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Tendemness in repets provides many copies of the sequence for finger-priniting and variability in nitrogen base sequences present in them. Being individual-specific, this proves to be useful in the process of DNA fingerprinting.
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