Anthropology 2235A/B Lecture 3: lecture 3 (Midterm)

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2235A/B
• Professor: Eldon Molto

Document Summary

Introduction: the field of genetics has a long history and key developments were the understanding of genetic transmission in families and populations and the understanding of the molecular structure of genetic transmission. This together with advances in technology, particularly extracting dna from tissue using pcr, and sequencing the results, is the foundation of modern forensic genetic analysis. 1865 mendel"s laws (1900 discovered and brought to the field of genetics) 1987 1st forensic case using rflp foundation for the dna sequencing but this method is no longer used. Completed before the human st paper on strs: dna identification act and twgdam. 1995-1999 1st dna str databases in britain, us and canada. Cytogenetics - the study of genetic mechanisms that operate within the context of a cell. In the human cell dna is located in the 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 total) in the nucleus (nuclear. Dna) as well as in the mitochondria (mitochondrial dna, mtdna often called the 47th chromosome)