Difference between revisions of "Genetic markers"

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-A '''genetic marker''' is a segment of [[DNA]] having an identifiable physical location on a chromosome and an inheritance that can be followed.
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-A marker can be a gene, or it can be some section of DNA with no known function.
-Because DNA segments that lie near each other on a chromosome tend to be inherited together, markers are often used as indirect ways of tracking the inheritance pattern of a gene that has not yet been identified, but whose approximate location is known.
-== Source ==
-*[http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm Government NIH Genome Project]
-[[Category:Genetics]]