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The Technological and ethical issues of DNA fingerprinting: Is it incriminating or a benefit to society?
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The Technological and ethical issues of DNA fingerprinting: Is it incriminating or a benefit to society? Deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA, is where our genetic code is stored. We need this code to produce genes, amino acids and to enable us to reproduce and form new cells. DNA is a polymer of monomers called nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of three components: * Deoxyribose - a pentose sugar * A nitrogen base * And lastly a phosphate group DNA is composed of to strands of polynucleotides, which are joined together at the bases. Each polynucleotide chain runs in opposite directions, so they are anti parallel. The DNA appears as a double helix, showing that a pyrimidine base is joined to a purine base. Further investigation into this showed that the purines would only join to a certain pyrimidine, and vice versa. It was proven that Adenine would only pair with Thymine and Guanine would only pair...
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