Sir Alec John Jeffreys
1950-
British Geneticist
Sir Alec John Jeffreys developed a ground-breaking new technique to identify different genetic patterns found in each individual person, except identica...
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Alec J. Jeffreys
1950-
British biologist who discovered the process of genetic fingerprinting and who helped discover the genetic marker for colon cancer. Genetic fingerprinting has become increasingl...
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Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester, along with a team of his colleagues, established a means of creating a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) fingerprint. This method allows for the identificat...
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Sir Alec John Jeffreys
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