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Focus on genetic fingerprinting The `Battersea Beast ` was jailed for twenty years in 1992 for the rape and robbery of five London women. His case was widely reported. It took three and a half years to catch him. He ended up behind bars thanks to revolutionary new technique called genetic fingerprinting. The case above is just one example for the use of genetic fingerprinting. It has long been know that no two people have precisely the same pattern of dermal ridges on their arrangement of amino acids in there DNA--- except the twins---they share the same pattern---but furthermore, even the twins will have a very slightly difference in it, because mutations, independent assortment will happen unpredictably. In 1984 Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist at Leicester University, discovered a technique that could readily distinguish one person's DNA form another's. This is the basis of genetic fingerprinting. The essence of the...

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