[DNA Fingerprinting: A Review of the Controversy]: Comment: Theory and Practice in DNA Fingerprinting

A DNA Fingerprinting Exercise for

"Hands on" laboratory exercises are excellent teaching tools because they have the potential to reach students with all types of learning styles. Unfortunately the large monetary investment required to obtain supplies and equipment and train instructors prevents many schools from providing hands-on learning experiences with DNA technology. Students in non-laboratory courses are even less likely...

DNA Fingerprinting and RFLP Analysis

The similarity index and DNA fingerprinting.

DNA-fingerprint similarity is being used increasingly to make inferences about levels of genetic variation within and between natural populations. It is shown that the similarity index--the average fraction of shared restriction fragments--provides upwardly biased estimates of population homozygosity but nearly unbiased estimates of the average identity-in-state for random pairs of individuals....

Structured Controversy: A Case Study Strategy DNA Fingerprinting in the Courts

Science has always been filled with controversy whether the issue is the Big Bang hypothesis versus the steady state universe, the cold fusion debate, or the wave versus particle theories of the nature of light. It is the nature of the business to question, debate, and argue. Science is not special in that regard. Human society as a whole is besieged by debate and probably always has been. It i...

Multilocus Dna Fingerprinting, Based on A

single probe, have been shown to reflect genetic relatedness accurately in the redwinged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus). We maintain that our application of this method in testing for differences in the average level of relatedness between groups is justified. We agree with Griffith and Montgomerie that alternative explanations may need to be considered before concluding that mate choice is ba...