coenzymes are organic molecules that are required by certain enzymes to carry out catalysis. They bind to the active site of the enzyme and participate in catalysis but are not considered substrates of the reaction.
2. List two situations where DNA fingerprinting is useful. DNA fingerprints can be used for determining a biological mother or father, identifying thesuspect of a crime, or clearing someone's name for a crime they were mistakenly accused orconvicted.
DNA fingerprinting can be used to help identify individuals by revealing the. differences in the DNA sequence among different people. Certain non-coding regions of. DNA exhibit significant differences in base pair sequence among individuals. Such. regions are called polymorphisms (meaning many forms). Thus, you can compare the. base pair sequence of a polymorphic region of DNA found at a crime scene with the base. pair sequence of a polymorphic region of DNA obtained from the suspects. If the. sequence of one of the suspects matches the sequence found at the crime scene, then you. can be certain that the suspect was present at the crime scene.