Forensic Chapter 16: DNA

What is the process of looking at multiple repeating points on all chromosomes at once?

Which type of DNA is passed down from a female?

What is the only exception to using airtight containers for biological materials?

Where is nuclear DNA located in the cytoplasm?

DNA instructs the body to link what together into chains?

What is the process of separating molecules based on their size and likelihood to move under an electrical potential?

DNA triples every cycle.

Which nitrogenous base is NOT found in DNA?

What are the correct base pair ups?

For PCR, which DNA is easier to handle and withstand?

Who discovered the structure of DNA (double helix/ twisted ladder)?

At a crime scene biological evidence/DNA must first be ______ and the __________.

The first scientifically accepted individualization of DNA: President Nixon’s famous Watergate scandal.

Forensic science community has standardized on ___ STRs for entry into DNA database ______.

Airtight containers must be used for biological materials.

Each amino acid is represented by a sequence of __ bases.

Genes are the basic unit of heredity.

DNA has allowed biological samples be matched with unique individuals.

Not every STRs has to match up for it to be a DNA match.

Lab tests can usually tell when a sample is contaminated.

What test is used when the presence of blood is suspected but can’t be observed with the naked eye?

DNA _________ are enzymes (proteins) that assemble new strands of DNA.

The first step in the PCR process is to heat the DNA strands, but why?

Where is mitochondrial DNA located in the cytoplasm?

What is the complementary strand?

Nuclear DNA is easier to attain because there are thousands in just one cell.

How many known amino acids make all the thousands of proteins you need?

Sequence of amino acids gives proteins their specific shape and job.

What is the first step when acquiring DNA?

DNA is a nucleic acid composed of smaller building blocks called what?

How is DNA replicated?

In 1985, DNA typing had begun with the work of who?

If you were to stretch out a strand of DNA how long would it be?

Which suspects are NOT a match?

Reference samples for DNA must be collected from all victims and suspects, which is usually the buccal swab.

For RFLP, all humans have the same number of repeats, but not in the type of repeat.

RFLPs are cut directly out of the DNA helix with what?

What copies or replicates DNA strands if you only have a small amount.

What is the transferring of DNA via skin cells onto an object?