Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Makes a Dna Fingerprint Unique?
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.
PBS
Newton's Apple: Dna Fingerprinting
Great investigation topic revolving around DNA fingerprinting. Worth a look, educates and involves!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Who Robbed the Bank?
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...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna Interactive: Applications
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.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Dna Fingerprinting in Plants
Brief descriptions of four complex methods of DNA profiling in plants. Some advantages of DNA fingerprinting are also listed.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Step by Step Explanation of Dna Fingerprinting Process
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.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: History of Dna Fingerprinting
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...
Michigan Reach Out
Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification
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.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Uses of Dna Fingerprinting
Explains what DNA profiling is and describes some of the many ways it is used.