Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 5

The correct answer is Lalji Singh.

• Lalji Singh, widely regarded as the father of DNA fingerprinting in India.
• He is a former director of Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB).
• DNA fingerprinting was invented in 1984 by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys after he realized you could detect variations in human DNA, in the form of these minisatellites.