2. TECHNIQUE USED TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS BY THEIR BLOOD TYPE Blood-Typing

3. The Importance of Blood-Typing Crime Scene Investigation & Forensics Medical Tests

4. Learning Objectives At the end of this lesson, you will be able to… (1) Describe blood antigens and their inheritance (2) Perform a blood-typing experiment (3) Solve a problem by analyzing results of the blood- typing experiment (4) Determine the answer to a case study problem by analyzing gel electrophoresis results

5. What are… Genes Allele Heredity Diploid

6. Multiple Alleles Some genes have multiple alleles (more than 2) Alleles can be  Dominant ; represented by capitalized letter (A)  Recessive (a)

7. ABO Blood Groups

8. VideoVideo #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYlZJiuf18 VideoVideo #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_V6FcYD5I

9. Blood-Typing Experiment

10. Case Study: Food Forensics http://www.genomicseducation.ca/educationResources/activities/food_forensics.asp Mary and Jake are suffering from Salmonella food poisoning. To determine which food poisoned them, they have performed gel electrophoresis and obtained: (1) DNA fingerprints of Salmonella strains isolated from Mary and Jake (2) DNA fingerprints of all food products containing Salmonella from their refrigerators (3) DNA fingerprints from the Salmonella strain database

11. Summary Crime Scene Investigation & Forensics Medical Tests

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15. Questions?

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