These types of evidence collected from a crime scene can be used to perform forensic DNA analysis.
What is blood / saliva / hair / skin
100
"DNA" is an abbreviation of this
What is DeoxyriboNucleic Acid?
100
"PCR" is an abbreviation for this.
What is the Polymerase Chain Reaction?
100
Your DNA gels are made from this
What is Agarose?
100
The number of people on the planet.
What is 7 billion?
200
Very small repeated DNA sequences. The number of repeats varies among individuals and is inherited. They are the basis for the PCR that we performed. Full answer please, no abbreviations!
What is Short Tandem Repeats (STR)?
200
A section of DNA that codes for a trait/protein
What is a gene?
200
In PCR, the strand of DNA that contains the target sequence that you want to amplify.
What is the template strand?
200
Separation of molecules in a gel using an electric field.
What is electrophoresis?
200
A version of a gene. May be different in different people.
What is an Allele?
300
A term that describes the combined methods of analyzing people's DNA by an of several different methods.
What is DNA Profiling?
300
The four different nucleotides that make up DNA
What are A, T, G and C?
300
In PCR, a mixture of all the components needed for PCR, except the template DNA.
What is Master Mix?
300
This sample is added to the first lane so you can determine the sizes of your PCR products.
What is an Allele Ladder, or Ladder.
300
The fundamental unit that makes up DNA. Consists of a sugar, a base, and a phosphate. 4 types.
What is a nucleotide?
400
The ability to discriminate between two genotypes. It increases as more loci (or genes) are analyzed.
What is Power of Discrimination?
400
How similar we are to each other genetically
What is 99.9%?
400
A short series of nucleotides (usually 10-30 base pairs in length) that bind to a particular sequence of nucleotides on the target DNA sequence. Also called oligonucleotides.
What are Primers?
400
This electrode, colored red, is the one that the DNA migrates towards in an electric field.
What is the positive electrode?
400
Genetic differences at a given locus. May be different in several people giving rise to several different alleles.
What is Polymorphism?
500
This is a federally maintained database of DNA obtained from crime scenes and convicted violent offenders.
What is CODIS?
500
The number of base pairs in human DNA
What is 3 billion (3,000,000,000)?
500
The exact name of the enzyme used in PCR
What is Taq DNA polymerase?
500
One of the stains used to analyze DNA gels. It is visualized with UV light and is a suspected carcinogen.
What is Ethidium Bromide?
500
The names of each of the four loci (genes) that we used in the genetics simulation that we did (with the mom, dad and all the kids!)