During a fire in an auditorium a large number of assembled guest got burnt beyong recognition. Suggest and describe a modern technique that can help hand over the dead to their relatives.
The technique that will help the cops to identify that criminal is DNA fingerprinting.
This technique was initially build by Alec Jeffreys. He used a satellite DNA as probe that shows very high degree of polymorphism. It was called as Variable number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR).The technique as used earlier,involved southern blot hybridisation using radiolabelled VNTR as a probe. It included:
1. isolation of DNA
2. digestion of DNA by restriction endonucleases.
3. separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis.
Fill in the blanks:
(a) Humans reproduce __________. (asexually/sexually)
(b) Humans are__________. (oviparous/viviparous/ovoviviparous)
(c) Fertilization is __________ in humans. (external/internal)
(d) Male and female gametes are __________. (diploid/haploid)
(e) Zygote is __________. (diploid/haploid)
(f) The process of release of the ovum from a mature follicle is called__________.
(g) Ovulation is induced by a hormone called the __________.
(h) The fusion of male and female gametes is called _____________.
(i) Fertilisation takes place in _____________.
(j) Zygote divides to form _____________which is implanted in uterus.
(k) The structure which provides vascular connection between fetus and uterus is called ____________.