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11. Finding Genes With Microarrays (cont.)

Finding Genes With Microarrays (cont.)

 

A DNA microarray is a thin-sized chip that has been spotted at fixed locations with thousands of single-stranded DNA fragments corresponding to various genes of interest. A single microarray may contain 10,000 or more spots, each containing pieces of DNA from a different gene. A single gene chip can even hold representative fragments from the entire human genome.