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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dna Fingerprint Photos

For Students 9th - 10th
These photographs supplied by Genelex Corporation depict actual DNA fingerprints and show the types of information that can be gleaned from them.
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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
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Who Done It? Dna Fingerprinting and Forensics

For Students 9th - 10th
DNA fingerprinting (also known as DNA profile analysis and DNA typing), is a method of distinguishing between individuals by analyzing patterns in their DNA. This project focuses on the first method of DNA fingerprinting to be developed,...
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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
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Dna Fingerprinting in Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by Access Excellence, gives a detailed article outlining DNA fingerprinting, how it is used, and how it works.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Restriction Enzymes and Dna Fingerprinting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The discovery of restriction enzymes and their applications in DNA analysis has proven to be essential for biologists and chemists. This lesson focuses on restriction enzymes and their applications to DNA analysis and DNA fingerprinting....
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Article
Other

Science Articles:how Does Dna Fingerprinting Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
DNA fingerprinting is a term that has been bandied about in the popular media for many years, largely due to its power to condemn and save, but what does it involve?
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna Forensics and Color Pigments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students perform DNA forensics using food coloring to enhance their understanding of DNA fingerprinting, restriction enzymes, genotyping and DNA gel electrophoresis. They place small drops of different food coloring ("water-based paint")...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Dna Evidence Works

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article by An Meeker-O'Connell, discover how DNA evidence is processed before it goes to court.
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
At DNA from the Beginning, choose from classical genetics, molecules of genetics, genetic organization and control. Each concept is explained through animation, an image gallery, video interviews, biographies and links.
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Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Dna and Verdicts

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a site on genetics, this page explores DNA as a forensic science. Explains how and why DNA can be used to convict or acquit a criminal from wrongdoing using forensic DNA analysis. Teacher resources too.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Forensics and Dna Profiling

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how DNA profilers analyze bits of tissue to identify human remains. From the NOVA: "Lost on Everest" Web site.
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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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Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Use of Dna in Identification

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from Access Excellence, you can read a transcript from a lecture at the University of California, San Francisco by a biology professor discussing the use of DNA in criminal identification.
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Handout
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Dna Forensics

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise explanation of the use of DNA technologies in forensic identification from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additional valuable resources are provided.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna Build

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students reinforce their knowledge that DNA is the genetic material for all living things by modeling it using toothpicks and gumdrops that represent the four biochemicals (adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine) that pair with each...
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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.
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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
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dna on the Witness Stand

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Eric Lander of the Human Genome Project explains the use of DNA as forensic evidence. He describes the process and need for standards in testing laboratories and discusses the use of DNA evidence as a human rights tool.
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Fingerprints of Twins

For Students 9th - 10th
If you had an identical twin would you have the same set of fingerprints? Site uncovers the answer by researching the science behind fingerprints.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Lost Tribes of Israel, Dna

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate how fingerprinting works, determine what sorts of evidence and questions are important in deciding a court case and understand the issues involved with using DNA evidence in a courtroom trial.

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