Looks at DNA fingerprinting and how DNA technology is probing the genome.
· This program begins with a forensic lab doing DNA fingerprinting.
· How we read DNA and some uses of this technology.
· Finding and creating genes.
· Accuracy considerations.
· Limits of nuclear DNA in tracing lineage - usefulness of tracing the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA.
· Three ways of isolating or constructing genes in the laboratory.
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