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DNA fingerprinting and its use in crime prevention DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) fingerprinting is the unique, individual base pairing of a piece of a chromosome that dictates a specific feature called a gene. Everyone's chemical structure of DNA is the same. The only difference being the order of the base pairs, as there are millions of base pairs in everyone's DNA that every person has a different sequence. Every person can be solely identified by the sequence of these base pairs but would be time-consuming because there are so many millions. Because of the repeated patterns in DNA there is a shorter method. Structurally DNA is a double helix; two strands of genetic material spiralled around each other. Each strand contains a sequence of bases (nucleotides). There are two types of nucleic acid, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) both of which are made up of units called nucleotides. These consist of...

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