Anthropology 2235A/B Lecture Notes - Null Allele, Allele Frequency, Nuclear Dna

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

Document Summary

The field of genetics has a long history and key developments are 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. In the last two decades, the field of forensic science has changed dramatically due to genetic science and the admissibility of science in the courts. It is important to have a historical perspective to illustrate the long but disjointed development of the field and to emphasize the pace of change due to the exponential growth of molecular genetics. History: 1865 mendel"s laws (discovered in 1900). 1995-1999 first dna str databases in uk, Cytogenetics: cytogenetics is the study of genetic mechanisms that operate within the context of a cell.