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

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Tandemness in repeats provides many copies of the sequence for fingerprinting. and variability in nitrogen base sequence in them. Being Individual-specific, this proves to be useful in the process of DNA fingerprinting
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