On What Basis Does Forensic Biotechnology Distinguish One Individual from Another

question 34

Multiple Choice

On what basis does forensic biotechnology distinguish one individual from another?

• A)Different people will have different mutations in their short tandem repeats.
• B)Different people will have a different number of tandem repeats at the same location in their genomes.
• C)Different people will have completely different genomes.
• D)A small tandem repeat in one person will be in a different location in the genome of another person.

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