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Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e
Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College

Evaluating the Evidence

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Reading Selection:
DNA Fingerprinting, by Ruth Bernstein and Stephen Bernstein


Barry Scheck is an expert on the use of DNA in criminal trials. He is a professor of law and was one of the defense attorneys in the O.J. Simpson trial. Go to an interview with Barry Scheck to learn about the role of DNA in helping to convict the guilty and protect the innocent.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/interviews/scheck.html
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/interviews/scheck.html)

These websites have more information about DNA fingerprinting.

http://www.biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html
(http://www.biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html)

http://www.dnalc.org/resources/aboutdnafingerprinting.html
(http://www.dnalc.org/resources/aboutdnafingerprinting.html)

http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/rdna/fingerprint.html
(http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/rdna/fingerprint.html)

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/DNA.html
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/DNA.html)