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The Many Applications of DNA Fingerprinting

outbreaks (Feedstuffs, 2010). An even more fascinating application of DNA fingerprinting is the use of biological material added ...

Proving Innocence After Conviction Using DNA

Criminal justice is faced with many challenges when it comes to insuring that those accused of crimes are properly prosecuted....

Our Evolving Use of DNA in Criminal Justice

The ways society goes about proving guilt or innocence in criminal justice has changed dramatically since the mid-twentieth centur...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

Technology and the Criminal Justice System

and foremost, its reliability for identification purposes (Technology and Human Values, 1997). In addition, it is widely used and...

Processing Human Remains

and Planz (2008) explore the research question of whether or not improved processing capabilities in mitochondrial DNA and STR tha...

Watson’s DNA

this puzzle. While the article appears overall to be accurate, in that the author quotes reliable sources, Begley (2007) does not ...

Process of Aging and DNA

the cell divides the telomeres (outer sections of DNA) are cut off; in the young cell, these sections are superfluous and their lo...

An Analysis of an Article on Fingerprints by Gregg Easterbrook

testing since its available and relatively inexpensive-why would we not want to make sure that the people who are in prison actual...

Society and the Impact of Technoloyg

potential ramifications of cloning: "He believes that while it is impossible to accurately forecast what the psychological and soc...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Modeling and Simulation

molecule through the digestive process and accompanies it to its destination cell, waiting with it after it receives its instructi...

Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

Identification Capabilities of DNA

and moral implications of such technology. However, overall, it is clear that using DNA as an identification tool is notably bett...

Criminal Justice and the Development of New Technology

three of the primary concerns with regard to DNA and paternity testing include the question of a "generally accepted scientific th...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Human O6-Alkylguanine-DNA Allkyltranferase and Zinc Occupancy's Effects

transition metals, including zinc, the researchers asserted that the zinc found in the comparative view of hAGT might in fact play...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

DNA Database Crime Laboratory Necessity

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

Overview of Nucleic Acids, Structure, and Function

acid determines the information that is carried by the molecule. In other words, the nucleotide bases provide a "genetic alphabet"...

Animals and Plants DNA Cloning

In five pages cloning or DNA alteration or modification in animals and plants is analyzed in terms of controversy, advantages and ...

Structure and Analysis of DNA and Implications for Society

In twelve pages DNA is considered an overview of its composition, methodologies, and how this technology impacts upon contemporary...

Disability, Eugenics, and Repeating History

In eight pages the Human Genome Project is examined in terms of the genetic controversy and considers whether identification of di...

Nursing and DNA Cloning

(Wilson, 1997). This may have significant information to import to scientists concerning the aging process since aging is related ...

Cancer Chemopreventative Agents and Their Effects

In five pages the article by Wendy Smith, Jamal Arif, and R. Gupta entitled 'Effects of cancer chemopreventative agents on microso...

Beyond Popular Cloning Myths

(Cullis 145). That is to say that the clone is an exact duplicate -- all the way down to the unique DNA molecules -- of the plant...

DNA Research Focus

In nine pages the controversies of DNA research is the focus of this paper that discusses the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, ...

Patau's Syndrome: Trisomy 13

of their facial expressions are indicative of the condition, although the public often looks upon them as being somewhat unusual. ...

Double Helix Importance and the Discovery of Watson and Crick

In fifteen pages this paper examines the discovery of Watson and Crick and what led to the Double Helix and its importance to DNA ...

Overview of DNA

In five pages DNA is explored in terms of how it relates to the reproduction of cells and includes a consideration of cell structu...