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Tandem & Dispersed Repeats

Members of a DNA sequence family may occur as multiple copies dispersed ["interspersed"] over multiple chromosomes, or as a series of tandem repeats on a single chromosome. Tandem repeats are the basis of DNA fingerprinting.



Figure ©2012 TA Brown, Introduction to Genetics (1st ed.); additional text ©2016 by Steven M. Carr