Argumentative Essay On Dna Fingerprinting

Have you ever wondered what part of your DNA really comes from your mom? Or which part comes from your dad? The answers to these questions can easily be found out with DNA Fingerprinting. Created in 1984, DNA Fingerprinting has become a major importance to the world by helping find the criminal in a case, figuring out who the father is when unknown, and finding the identification of an unknown body. DNA Fingerprinting can be taken from simple things like a strand of hair or even a dried bloodstain. DNA is everywhere, and is the key to so many answers in genetics. To use DNA fingerprinting you take a sample of something from the organism like blood or a hair strand. You then use restriction enzymes to cut the DNA into smaller pieces, place it into the electrophoresis gel, and it gets shocked. The largest band are at the top and the smallest are at the bottom. From here you see what samples of DNA fingerprinting matches. This is how you can find the criminal in a court case, with DNA fingerprinting. The first case this was ever used in was to find the person who raped and strangled Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
While sometimes this could work it’s not always accurate. What if your blood is the same as your mom? Then you will never know if the man who you think is your father really is. That’s why the government started using DNA fingerprinting to solve the paternity tests. You get 50% of your DNA from your mom and 50% from your dad. When the bands show up from your DNA 50% should match your mother's bands and 50% your fathers. Once you find all the bands that match your mother, then you go to see which ones match your fathers. If they don't match, or even have a slight difference then he is not the father. DNA fingerprinting help greatly in paternity testing to help children find their true father, and led to more ways of helping the world find loved