Techniques of DNA Analysis and Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry

Second Edition Forensic Science by Stuart H. James and John J. Nordby. (pg. 279-314) & (pg. 573-600)

Particulate

DNA Fingerprinting

Gametes

Genotypes

Nucleotides

Putative

Pedigree

Allelic Markers

Size Markers

Starch

(used in forensic labs before DNA analysis)

Agar Gel Electrophoresis

(used in forensic labs before DNA analysis)

DNA Fingerprints

Genome

Stringency

DNA Sequences

The haploid human gene contains approximately 3 billion base pairs with four different basses possible at each site. What are these four?

A (adenine), G (guanine), C (cytosine), and T (thymine).

Genomic DNA

A (adenine)

G (guanine)

C (cytosine)

T (thymine)

DNA Probes

Haploid Cell

Enhancer Sequences

Noncoding regions

Tandem Array

Pseudogenes

Alu repeat

(examples of transposons)

transposons

Duplications of large strands of DNA can be as large as________

200,000 to 300,000 bps

Centromere

Microsatellites

Minisatellites

Repetitive DNA

Satellite DNA (a type of repetitive DNA)

Ribosomal RNA genes

Hemoglobin genes

Immunoglobin genes

Heterozygosity

fragile X syndrome

Myotonic dystrophy

PCR Primers

Proteinases

Phenol

Chloroform

SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism)

Double Helix

Denaturation

DNA polymerases

Amplicons

dNTPs

Taq polymerase

Annealing

Base Pairs

Flanking region

dot-blot

mtDNA

mutation rates

(STR-a satelite DNA- has high mutation rates)

Tetranucleotide repeat

Dinucleptides

Trinucleotides

Transversions

INDELS

SNPs (reffered to as singletons)

Purine

Pyrimidine

transversions

Neutral population genetic theory

maternal lineage (share the same mtDNA sequence)

Hypervariable regions

1,2, and 3 (HVI, HVII, and HVIII)

forensic psychology

malingering

projective tests

specialized forensic assessment techniques

naacroanalysis

pseodo-malingering

Ganser’s syndrome