How does DNA fingerprinting work?

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  • Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
  • What are DNA fingerprints and how does the technology work. If you’ve ever seen DNA fingerprints, then what do those seemingly random series of lines on a photographic plate actually mean?
    In this video I will explain how DNA fingerprinting works. I’ll look at 2 techniques called Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) Analysis and Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis.
    I’ll also be taking a look at how DNA works and explaining a little of this amazing molecule.
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  • @akshitaaaaatiwari2568
    @akshitaaaaatiwari2568 3 роки тому +37

    I watched 3 to 4 other videos to understand DNA fingerprinting but none of them cleared the topic as u did thanksssss

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      Thank you very much for saying that. I'm glad you found my explanation useful. Even though the radioactive DNA method isn't really used anymore, it is still used in teaching.

  • @rehmanrupiya7587
    @rehmanrupiya7587 Рік тому +5

    I have tried multiple times to understand from our NCERT textbook but everytime i failed. Thank you so much for explaining in a very simple way.

  • @Eterrath
    @Eterrath 2 роки тому +32

    This is an amazing video. I've seen multiple videos on DNA fingerprinting and this is the only one that manages to answer all my curious high school level questions without being too technical to fry my brain. Glad you're still uploading videos. Hugely underrated. Subscribed.

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому +5

      Thank you very much. I am actually an educator in the UK, and so I try to make my videos understandable by as many people as possible. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you very much for subscribing

    • @learner3268
      @learner3268 2 роки тому

      Same here

  • @robertm7120
    @robertm7120 10 місяців тому +1

    Finally !! An explanation of how a DNA sample can be transformed into a DNA profile ! Thank you so much.

  • @WitchyLady21
    @WitchyLady21 3 місяці тому +1

    Loved the Doctor Who reference! Great video! Thank you for doing this. It helped me pass my class. :)

  • @shmkrar1153
    @shmkrar1153 10 місяців тому +2

    This video is awesome! I had great trouble understanding DNA fingerprinting. Now, I've got it and find it really fascinating

  • @normannokes9513
    @normannokes9513 11 місяців тому

    The world has received a wonderful gift. Undeniable evidence will upset many corruptible personalities. Thank you Sir Alec.

  • @learner3268
    @learner3268 2 роки тому

    First time ever being able to understand DNA profiling in a much better way after watching a number of videos finally

  • @mamtalall6750
    @mamtalall6750 Рік тому +1

    Sir, your explanation is simple and so easy to understand. Especially for students in a resource poor set up. Thank you so much.

  • @Mikeymouse1
    @Mikeymouse1 Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much. I normally need very detailed explanation with visual and this is perfect. 😊

  • @Itachi-1503
    @Itachi-1503 9 місяців тому

    3D visualisation is the best way of teaching so that all can get it very easily... Your explanation is amazing... Keep it up🎉🎉

  • @noorashaju7892
    @noorashaju7892 2 роки тому

    And finally here it is.. This still helps a lot for me. Thank you so much sir for your wonderful explanation.

  • @tinopetersson2577
    @tinopetersson2577 2 роки тому +3

    Why does this channel not have more subscribers? Thank you for a great piece of content!

  • @kinjalchandpara8603
    @kinjalchandpara8603 3 роки тому +6

    Excellent !!!!!!!🙌🏻 None can forget this topic after watching this video. Very well explained 👌🏻

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      Thank you very much for such a lovely comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @wonderman8537
    @wonderman8537 2 роки тому

    Oh my goodness me. I can't believe this is a 2k sub channel and such professional video

  • @andydrews4439
    @andydrews4439 Рік тому +4

    I did a gel electrophoresis lab in my cell biology lab. Took us three weeks to complete. Very cool.

  • @islamicbro
    @islamicbro 2 роки тому +1

    I saw tooo many videos of dna fingerprinting. But this one is what I was looking for❤️

  • @savanrathod6021
    @savanrathod6021 2 роки тому

    Very simply explained,thank you sir

  • @eduardoborges1202
    @eduardoborges1202 3 роки тому +3

    Man, you did a great job here. Thanks.

  • @chiumanhin618
    @chiumanhin618 3 роки тому +2

    I have been looking for video like this so long!!thankyouuuuuu!

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      Good, I'm glad you found what you were looking for. Thank you for watching.

  • @lilyc302
    @lilyc302 7 місяців тому

    great explanation, other youtube videos were too vague

  • @ReflectiveLayerFilm
    @ReflectiveLayerFilm 3 роки тому +5

    Great video/explanation. Now I know why it's expensive to do DNA fingerprinting.

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you, I thought I'd go back to my biological roots for a video. Biology is my comfort zone I suppose. For quite a few years, there was only 1 lab in the world doing DNA fingerprints.

  • @ShortsOG123
    @ShortsOG123 2 роки тому +1

    Thanku so much it is the bestt explanation on DNA fingerprinting💕

  • @gulshanmaurya5512
    @gulshanmaurya5512 2 роки тому

    Great explain ❤️ love from India 🇮🇳

  • @mimansamishra5833
    @mimansamishra5833 3 роки тому +2

    Your videos are really helpful!

  • @WanderingKnights
    @WanderingKnights 3 роки тому +3

    You are great at explaining

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      Thank you, I'm glad you think so. DNA is such a fascinating molecule.

  • @nazlkarac5367
    @nazlkarac5367 Рік тому

    thank you for this amazing video from Türkiye

  • @HEARDIFFERENT
    @HEARDIFFERENT 3 роки тому +6

    Excellent video once again. ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥

  • @pankajakshigk7842
    @pankajakshigk7842 2 роки тому

    Thank you very much It was very helpfull

  • @MezGaming-zp5ei
    @MezGaming-zp5ei 3 місяці тому

    Now i understood
    Thanks!

  • @ashishrokade3488
    @ashishrokade3488 Рік тому

    Thank you so much

  • @wicked.peaches.1797
    @wicked.peaches.1797 Рік тому

    Loved the explanation and Doctor Who reference. 😂

  • @diegocorales9284
    @diegocorales9284 2 роки тому +1

    2:02 is epic!

  • @noureenadil1612
    @noureenadil1612 Рік тому

    Wonderful 👍

  • @laladnikuku3ka
    @laladnikuku3ka 3 роки тому +1

    thank you for the video

  • @vachan-maker
    @vachan-maker Рік тому

    excellent

  • @janebarnes4386
    @janebarnes4386 Рік тому

    Back to class. I’ll get a c- w all science classes. -an MA + writer

  • @globaltutorialscenterkawar4176
    @globaltutorialscenterkawar4176 7 місяців тому

    Thanks sir

  • @akshitaaaaatiwari2568
    @akshitaaaaatiwari2568 3 роки тому +4

    Awsomeeeeeeee

  • @daytodayupdate5922
    @daytodayupdate5922 3 роки тому +2

    Very well explained.
    Do we use EtBr in gel electrophoresis step of fingerprinting? If not then what is the reason of it?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      Ethidium Bromide is a dye that fluoresces in the presence of DNA. It is usually used to make the band more easy to see. It means you don't have to bother with the radioactive DNA probes.

  • @steamerSama
    @steamerSama 2 роки тому +1

    gr8 video mate

  • @vivekgautam6943
    @vivekgautam6943 3 роки тому +1

    U r wonderful buddy.

  • @manar-nasser
    @manar-nasser 2 роки тому

    Your voice make me feel like I'm watching a movie

  • @tamarafakih1080
    @tamarafakih1080 2 роки тому

    thank you so much this was very beneficial
    but i wanted to ask on which basis is the radioactive probe chosen, or to be clearer, what is the specific DNA sequence that i want it to be hybridized by this probe and why?

    • @Okamy1993
      @Okamy1993 2 роки тому

      You dont need to tag the bases, for example it can pair with the Phosphate or sugar Rests every DNA has.

  • @virenderbhardwaj3137
    @virenderbhardwaj3137 Рік тому +1

    4:20 how do we make these probes?
    ...i.e how do we know they're gonna be complementary to the sample dna pieces??

  • @kiranyadav7387
    @kiranyadav7387 3 роки тому +1

    is there any relation between the restriction enzymes used in RFLP and location of STRs?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому

      Interesting question. I'm not entirely sure. You need to make sure that a cut is made before the STR and then again after the STR. As long as the cuts are made in the same place in everyone's DNA, then it is just the length of the STR that differs.

  • @ghoulwizard1901
    @ghoulwizard1901 3 роки тому +2

    I don’t really get the part where the pieces of complementary DNA are made radioactive. Can you elaborate on that? So the pieces of DNA added are complementary to the DNA strand we used as sample?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому +1

      Yes I use pieces of DNA that I know to be complementary to the sequences in the sample. These pieces of DNA are made artificially and are made to be radioactive. We do the same thing today with pieces of DNA that have dye molecules attached to them. It just helps us to see where our DNA samples ended up. I hope that helps.

    • @ghoulwizard1901
      @ghoulwizard1901 3 роки тому

      @@LearningCurveScience Oh, thank you so much! I understand now!

  • @PrakashChandraJoshii
    @PrakashChandraJoshii 2 роки тому +1

    Fucking deep hard next level explaining man 🏆🔥🙏

  • @nishantraj440
    @nishantraj440 2 роки тому +1

    wow ❤

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому

      DNA is awesome, I find it fascinating. Thank you for watching the video.

  • @girishshankarrai6488
    @girishshankarrai6488 3 роки тому

    Sir the repeative sequence which are found in the fragments why they are only present in narrow band which are rich in A T content 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому

      That's a really interesting question, thank you. I'm not sure why the sequences are found in narrow bands, but since they are non-coding they would not be affected by mutations that add extra copies of the sequences (these can happen at any time). Also quite a few of them are rich in A and T, but not all of them. The STR called FGA has the sequence CTTT, but it does appear that a lot of them have A and T. I'm not sure why, but excellent question.

  • @safazuhair2420
    @safazuhair2420 Рік тому

    thank you so mush 😭 thank you thank you soooo much , allah bless you ❤

  • @unknown5904
    @unknown5904 2 роки тому +1

    Why don't we stop after electrophoresis, isn't there a dye that is added to the fragments during electrophoresis. I mean when is it necessary to continue to jeffreys technique?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому

      That's a good question, and the answer I don't really know, but I have some ideas. Firstly this is the technique that is often used in education. Also having seen a number of these gels, they lose water and shrivel with time. This would alter the gel and potentially make them unusable. Also I'm not sure how stable. There are solutions that do use dye (I've used some myself). Sadly when they dry out they become unusable. Hope that helps.

    • @unknown5904
      @unknown5904 2 роки тому

      @@LearningCurveScience oh thanks so much

  • @ayushpandeymbbs1776
    @ayushpandeymbbs1776 2 роки тому

    Sir after gelectrophoresis if both semple has diffrent arrangement of DNA fragments then here why we can not decide both DNA semple are of different persons????.... Why we go further and perform autoradiography and all ???????

    • @ayushpandeymbbs1776
      @ayushpandeymbbs1776 2 роки тому

      We can see DNA arrangement in gel electrophoresis strp by stanning with ethidium bromide and UV rays ...????

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому

      The method I discussed is just one way of making the fragments visible. We need to make them visible to see if there are any differences. This is just one way, and it's the way that's usually taught in schools (in the UK at least). I hope that makes sense

    • @ayushpandeymbbs1776
      @ayushpandeymbbs1776 2 роки тому

      @@LearningCurveScience ok sir love from India ❤️

  • @rahulkumar10tha57
    @rahulkumar10tha57 2 роки тому

    Woah mannnn

  • @ThePhotogalleria
    @ThePhotogalleria 3 роки тому +2

    The radioactive method has not been used since 1995 or so. So this video outdated some 25 years ago.

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  3 роки тому +2

      Ooh interesting, I didn't know that, thank you. I'm a teacher rather than a research biologist and the radioactive probe technique is still taught. I know we don't use the RFLP analysis anymore but I thought it was interesting so I included it in the video. Whenever I've done a gel electrophoresis I've always used dyed probes, but I always assumed they were just used for education. Interesting to learn something new, thank you.

  • @moutaihaitam2959
    @moutaihaitam2959 6 місяців тому

    is the same analysis we do to identify the parents ?

  • @AnnaRossa6088
    @AnnaRossa6088 2 роки тому +1

    Doctor who reference!

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому

      I am a massive Doctor Who fan and geek. My time travel is full of Doctor Who references (and I do mean full)

  • @TheTransporter007
    @TheTransporter007 Рік тому

    You sound.... Familiar. 🤔

  • @bisolailias3820
    @bisolailias3820 2 роки тому

    UA-cam refused my like