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DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic material that carries the genetic instructions being used in growth, development and reproduction of all living things. DNA has regions called genetic polymorphisms that are used to determine paternity/maternity, kinship, determination of human remains, and inherited diseases. DNA is an example of what forensic use for evidence in a crime. Using regions in the DNA you can determine a “fingerprint” for an individual that can help in a crime, with this…

Fingerprint evidence is highly accurate in the identification of suspects, because the likelihood of two different people possessing the same set of fingerprints is estimated to be one in 64 billion (Hall, 2015). Therefore, state and federal courts universally accept fingerprint evidence during a criminal trial due to the validated science behind the analysis of fingerprint characteristics (Hall, 2015). Next, as with everything else in law enforcement, computers have advanced fingerprint…

My primary interest of study lies in the field of forensic anthropology, in which I will analyze human remains while using a variety of techniques based on forensic chemistry to solve criminal cases. Moreover, forensic chemistry is a field of study that inspires my passion for science, while readying me for a future career as a forensic anthropologist. Ultimately, being an attendant at the Summer Pre-College Forensic Chemistry program at UMass Amherst will allow me to study a field that…

During the 10 through 24 weeks of gestation , ridges form on your epidermis, which is the outermost layer of skin on your fingertips. This pattern on your epidermis is known as your fingerprint. Fingerprint patterns are static and don’t change with age so an individual will have the same pattern from infancy to adulthood. Your fingerprint never changes over time, they will get bigger over time , but will not change. Fingerprints can be very helpful in identifying people. The FBI and many…

If you are sexually active and are looking for ways to avoid getting pregnant, you might be looking at your different contraceptive options. There are various contraceptives out there that you can choose from, but if you are a female, you might find that birth control pills are your best choice. These are a few signs that this might be the right contraceptive for you. 1. You'll Be Able to Remember to Take Them Daily For one thing, it is important to be honest with yourself and to determine…

Development of the Pill was partly facilitated by Katherine McCormic, friend of Margaret Sanger, who invested over three million dollars for scientific research towards the development of oral contraception (Chesler, 432). The pills main funders consisted of mostly pharmaceutical companies and well known institutions for population control (Petchesky, 171). In the year of 1951, progestin was fist synthesized in an oral form by Carl Djerassi amongst other chemists from the University of Mexico…

Want Freedom? Here’s a Pill You Can Take! Independence. Empowerment. Control. The birth control pill, for the first time, allotted women to experience the above in the sphere of sexuality with ease. 1960 was a turning point for women during the Sexual Revolution.* The Pill was the first oral contraceptive approved by the FDA. Following its approval, the number of openly sexual relationships increased and sexual activity, for participants in the counterculture, heightened, as this was the first…

Every year up sixty-two percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control, according to a 2006-2010 study (Jones). In 1950 a lady in her late eighties, named Margaret Sanger, wrote the research for the first human birth control pill, raising up to fifteen thousand dollars for the research for the project. The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA ten years later. In 1972, The Supreme Court legalized the use of birth control for couples who are married in the United…

In modern society, different methods of birth control is being introduced. Contraception is more widely accepted in different countries and in different religions making it more easier for individuals to take care of children. However, there are still countries that cannot establish a social environment to make birth control methods such as male condoms and contraceptive pills work. One method of birth control is the use of male condoms. By putting it on the penis, it acts as a barrier because…

In observing the preceding decades following the first use of DNA analysis through technology in 1986, the criminal justice system has manifestly prioritized this specific high-tech DNA evidence in every case following the discovery. Maurice Wilkins once said “DNA is like Mida’s gold, everyone who touches it goes mad,” and in this case it corresponds fittingly. As the material that accompanies the process of DNA technology progressively becomes further “professional” and more frequent, criminal…