One of the most popular taxonomic tools is dna fingerprinting to develop profiles of organisms. these profiles provide direct information about

These profiles provide direct information about nucleotide sequences. DNA fingerprinting or DNA profiling is a method of isolating and identifying variable elements within the base pair sequence of DNA. DNA profiling relies on microsatellites rather than the minisatellites used in DNA fingerprinting. Microsatellites, or short tandem repeats (STRs), are the shorter relatives of minisatellites usually two to five base pairs long.