Answers: Biotechnology and Disease

Q2. Briefly explain how STRs can be used to identify DNA from different individuals.
  • STRs vary in the number of repeated DNA sequences that they contain
  • STRs are inherited like alleles, so parents and children/relatives will have predictable combinations of STRs
  • Bases can be labelled with coloured fluorescent markers/labels so that patterns of STRs can be revealed