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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What Makes a Dna Fingerprint Unique?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you like solving mysteries? In this experiment, you can find out how a DNA fingerprint can help you figure out whodunit. The answer might just be in the "sequence" of events.
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Activity
PBS

Newton's Apple: Dna Fingerprinting

For Students 9th - 10th
Great investigation topic revolving around DNA fingerprinting. Worth a look, educates and involves!
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Who Robbed the Bank?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use DNA profiling to determine who robbed a bank. After they learn how the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is used to match crime scene DNA with tissue sample DNA, students use CODIS principles and sample DNA fragments...
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples of using DNA for forensic purposes is discussed here, as well as uses to unravel historical puzzles, trace the history of a species and answer health problems.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Dna Fingerprinting in Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief descriptions of four complex methods of DNA profiling in plants. Some advantages of DNA fingerprinting are also listed.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Step by Step Explanation of Dna Fingerprinting Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains with the help of a flowchart the steps in creating a DNA fingerprint and a few techniques that have been developed to improve accuracy and efficiency.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: History of Dna Fingerprinting

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the scientists who made discoveries about DNA and those who invented and worked on DNA fingerprinting, and some of the criminal cases that were resolved or thrown out through the use of DNA evidence. (Warning: Some of these...
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Lesson Plan
Michigan Reach Out

Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Who done it? Basic lesson plan to classify fingerprints. Young scholars can classify their own and classmates fingerprints by taking prints and comparing them to the handout provided.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Uses of Dna Fingerprinting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what DNA profiling is and describes some of the many ways it is used.