Multiple choice

Hypervariables are useful in

  1. DNA fingerprinting

  2. genetic engineering

  3. cloning

  4. gene shearing

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Hypervariables are useful in cloning.A hypervariable region (HVR) is a location within nuclear DNA or the D-loop of mitochondrial DNA in which base pairs of nucleotides repeat (in the case of nuclear DNA) or have substitutions (in the case of mitochondrial DNA).