restriction fragment length polymorphism
sporte | May 29, 2008RFLP is an acronym that stands for "Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism." That's quite a mouthful and once you've said this phrase a few times, you realize why we use the initials instead.
I know a Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism sounds like something that must be impossibly complicated to understand, but if we take the name apart, it's really not so bad.
Let's start with most familiar one of the four words and work from there. My guess is that for many of you, that word is "length." When we talk about length in this context, we are talking about the length of a piece of…