Question

How do radioactive DNA probes work?

Answer 1

So radioactive DNA probes are basically single strands of DNA or RNA with a radioactive tag. Their sequence is usually the complementary of a single sequence of DNA that researchers want to find in an array of other DNA (such as a gene).

So they tag this probe, and release it. They track it to see where it binds in the array of DNA. Once it binds, they know they've found their target DNA.

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