BY:MERCEDEZ KEOPHOUNSOUKAND

RICHARD XIONG

DNA Crime

Why is this important to the society ?

• The average viewer of crime dramas on television or film, as well as the interested fiction and non-fiction reader, will undoubtedly be aware of the benefits of using DNA testing as part of a criminal investigation. While witnesses can lack credibility or fail to recall relevant details, and other circumstantial evidence may be inconclusive, DNA has the potential of identifying the actual perpetrator of a crime with an astonishing level of accuracy. This makes DNA testing not only good for crime, it makes it necessary.

What ideas or inventions of the Scientific Revolution could this be connected to and HOW?

• DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It is the genetic material of a cell. DNA is can also be described as the blueprint of an organism.

• Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria, where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA.

• Human DNA consists of about three billion bases and more than 99 percent of those bases are the same in all people. It is divided into functional units called genes which carry all the instructions for making up our body.

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