DNA Forensics, Equilibrium, and Inheritance Review

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DNA Forensics, Equilibrium, and Inheritance Review

Biology 332 BIOINFORMATICS

EXERCISE 6. STR, AND DNA FORENSICS (CODIS)

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REVIEW OF MENDEL’S LAW OF INHERITANCE, HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM, AND DNA FORENSICS

DNA forensics has become an important tool to solve social problems in modern times. Part of the power of this technology lies in providing robust statistical values to refute or support statements of guilt, paternity, ancestry, and identity. To fully understand the technology, it is imperative to understand the ideas and principles that form the biological basis of its power. The first two ideas came from Gregor Mendel (1865): the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment. It describes how you inherit your genes and…