FS 160- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
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Identify endangered and protected species as aid to wildlife officials that may be used in bioterrorism: convicted felon dna databases, predicting facial shape, ancestry, hair color, and eye color from dna. Overview of dna typing: can now do in 90 minutes with rapid pcr machines, florida international can do 20 minute pcr runs. Introduction to biological physical evidence: wounds, can often be matched to weapons or tool marks on weapon, skeletal remains, determines, sex, age and stature. Fs 160 lecture 3 introduction to biological evidence: announcements, recordings for 9/16 and 9/23 to be posted, quizzes on 9/30 and 10/7. Dna basic definition, structure, and function: found in every cell, basic unit of life. Review of genetics: law of independent segregation, punnett square. Forensic dna analysis: screening, extraction, quantification, typing (distinguishing, interpretation. Assignments: dna extraction reading (chapter 5, website link, refer to email or syllabus, for each, write 1-3 paragraph summary along with a question and answer.
