Topic > How DNA Helps Solve Crimes - 565

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been used to analyze and prove the innocence or guilt of crime suspects with great accuracy. DNA is part of everyday life. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. While part of an investigation. DNA has helped solve crimes. There are a couple of ways that DNA left behind can be tested to solve a crime. Or if the suspect was caught and/or underwent DNA testing, or left behind biological evidence. Which will then have to be tested to see if it matches the DNA found at the crime scene with his DNA. The result of this comparison can help determine whether the suspect committed the crime. Even though the chemical structure in everyone's DNA is the same. The only thing that is different is the order of the DNA base pairs in each person. There are so many millions of base pairs in a person's DNA that they each have a different sequence. Using these sequences everyone could be identified solely by their base pairs, which do not provide the exact “fingerprint” of the real person. Accordingly, these...