Forensics, DNA Applications Web Quest
Name ______Period ______Date ______
Using the web site below, answer the following questions concerning DNA and its applications in forensics:
1)What is another name for DNA fingerprinting?
2)What are the three major applications for DNA fingerprinting?
3)DNA-based testing provides what two positive attributes to forensics?
4)What are good sources of DNA for testing?
5)What does PCR stand for?
6)DNA fingerprints make use of variations that consist of repeated ______of DNA?
7)Repeat polymorphisms are found in what region of the chromosome?
8)Areas that contain these “repeats” are known as ______.
9)9-80 repeating units are known as ______while less than 9 repeating units are known as ______.
10)What is a 3/10 genotype? 16/16?
11)Different zygote means ______, while same zygote means ______.
12)If a 3/10 male and a 16/16 female have children, what possibilities exist for the genome of their children?
13)Who was the inventor of DNA fingerprinting?
14)What was the first case that used DNA fingerprinting as a means of maternity?
15)How many bands did Jeffrey’s match up between the mom and her son? How could he prove that she was his mom and not his aunt?
16)How could Jeffrey’s reconstruct the DNA profile of the father without the father’s actual DNA?
17)In the case known as “Murder at Rodman Dam, 1988”, what evidence sample was used in the DNA fingerprinting procedure?
18)Did the DNA match?
19)What does a “single locus probe” bind to?
20)What is the “Innocence Project?”
21)Who was the Innocence Project’s first convicted candidate?
22)What problems did they run in to as they began researching his case?
23)Once some minute evidence was located and the DNA profile was made, did the strands match?
24)What are the FBI’s current criteria tested using a DNA fingerprint?
25)What is the Hardy-Weinberg Equation?