Chp 7: DNA Fingerprinting

Evidence capable of identifying a specific person

• biological

• trace

• individual

• class

The study of the variation in genes among a group of individuals

• population genetics

• population analysis

• population history

• popultion studies

Analysis of chromosomes

• allele

• genome

• electrophoresis

• karyotype

DNA in chromosomes

• mitochondrial DNA

• ribosomal DNA

• nuclear DNA

• cellular DNA

This evidence includes blood, saliva and urine

• individual

• direct

• circumstantial

• biological

DNA contains approximately how many base pairs

• 3 million

• 3 billion

• 3 trillion

• 3 thousand

Tandem repeats of short DNA sequences (2-5 pairs)

• STR

• VNTR

• PCR

• DNA

Small but measurable amount of evidence

• biological

• individual

• direct

• trace

An alternate form of a gene

• allele

• genome

• chromosome

• gene

DNA sequences that have instructions for making a protein

• DNA

• gene

• allele

• chromsome