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DNA evidence assists in criminal, missing persons, mass disaster, and paternity cases. It can be used to identify a perpetrator or exonerate the innocent. DNA Fingerprinting is a well known technique for establishing authenticity. Apart from its forensic applications, it has also evolved as a simple, yet elegant technique in solving paternity disputes, confirming quality parameters in plant biotech industries, characterizing microorganisms and other applications in medical sciences.

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is an extremely sensitive technique for DNA fingerprinting to establish variations within samples based on up to a single base difference. In this procedure, restriction enzymes are used to cleave seemingly identical DNA samples. As a consequence of allelic differences arising out of mutations during evolution, DNA fragments of different sizes (DNA fingerprints) are produced.

SLS’ Restriction Fragment Polymorphism (RFLP) Teaching Kit Helps the students to perform DNA fingerprinting by restriction digestion of DNA samples and analysis of the resulting fragments (profiles) on agarose gel