6 bodies are found buried

A group of 6 bodies are found buried in the forest: three males, a female and two children. The police suspect that they may be a missing family. They extract DNA from bones and examine the STRs from two genes A and B. The results are shown below, where the numbers indicate the number of copies of a tandem repeat in a particular allele; for example, male 3 has one allele with 8 and another allele with 9 copies of a tandem repeat in gene.

Oh Biology, how I love thee.

Deinococcus radiodurans is a tetrad-forming soil bacterium, characterized as apolyextromphile, with resistance to ionizing radiation by means of enzymatic genome repairs.

Ahhh.

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3 Responses to “6 bodies are found buried”

  1. Lizzy  on March 5th, 2009

    Oh, I remember that question from Biol112!

    Are you thinking of switching into Science now?

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    • Eastwood  on March 6th, 2009

      I’m considering the IDST BA program with a focus in bio and health & society

      Reply

  2. Humaira  on March 6th, 2009

    Very nice!

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