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Q. In DNA fingerprinting technique,____probe is used for hybridisation of DNA fragments.

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

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A hybridisation probe is a small single stranded DNA segment or RNA segment (usually $100-1000$ bases long), which is used to detect the nucleotide sequences that are complementary to the sequences in the probe.