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Which one of the following, scientists developed the process of DNA fingerprinting?
  1. Kary B. Mullis
  2. T. H. Morgan
  3. H. O. Smith
  4. Alec Jeffreys

A
T. H. Morgan
B
H. O. Smith
C
Kary B. Mullis
D
Alec Jeffreys
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In 1984, Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester. Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work.

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