Would it be appropriate to use DNA probes such as VNTR in DNA fingerprinting of a bacteriophage?

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Would it be appropriate to use DNA probes such as VNTR in DNA fingerprinting of a bacteriophage?

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answered Dec 7, 2017 by mdsamim (213,225 points) 5 10 15
selected Feb 26, 2018 by sarthaks
 
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Bacteriophage does not have repetitive sequences such as VNTRs in its genome as its genome is very small and have all the coding sequence.DNA finger printing is not done for phages.

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