Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 45

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These questions can be approached from a number of angles and, in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
a. Compare and contrast the process of restriction analysis used in traditional DNA fingerprinting with the procedure used in pulse-field gel electrophoresis.
b. What is the "basic local alignment search tool" (BLAST) maintained by the National Institutes of Health How can this database be used in genotypical analysis for microbial identification