CRIM 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alec Jeffreys, Fake Fur, Raccoon Dog
29 Nov 2017
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Progress on the back of 30 years of rapid advances in molecular biology. 1st description of a forensic application in 1985 alec jeffreys. Anything which contains dna can in theory be analysed to produce a dna profile. Matching biological evidence found at the scene of a crime to a suspect. Limitless many decisions made at crime scene. Dna can predict: eye colour, hair colour. Officers were greeted with initial hostility, until the man found out that the maximum penalty for a poached deer was . A(cid:272)(cid:272)oo(cid:374) dog fur re(cid:272)e(cid:374)tl(cid:455) reported as (cid:862)fau(cid:454)(cid:863) fur i(cid:374) high street retailers. Dna tests on clothing identified fur as real. Us changing the law to stop misrepresentation and to stop skinning farmed animals whilst they are alive. Bone is a highly vascularized tissue which is full of cells throughout. It is likely, although no proven, that cellular dna adheres to the mineralized surfaces of the porous network within bone during decomposition.
