Everybody seems to love a good coroner's investigation. And our appetite for the details of crime solving--from high-tech DNA analysis to no-tech wisdom that investigators pick up on the job--appears insatiable. Forensics is a fascinating science, and this deck rewards our fascination with forty-eight Q&As as rewarding to the solitary reader as to the yelping, competitive party crowd. Learn how flies help solve murders. Unveil the secrets of secretors. Find out how a pathologist establishes that a corpse was right- or left-handed. It's intellectually satisfying and good clean fun as well. Size: 3 1/4 x 4", ISBN: 978-0-7649-2795-9. |
| Sample Question: True or False? It is possible for the DNA from two different people to match? Judges, juries, prosecutors, and defense attorneys have long been interested in the accuracy of DNA matching. When the technique was first used in courtrooms, experts said that the odds of two samples matching when they really weren't from the same person were many billions to one. This estimate did not account for the fact that only a small sample of a person's genetic code is tested . . . [see the card for the full answer] All of our pictures enlarge; click on any picture for a closer look. Text & images protected by copyright. Home | Customer Service Center | Ordering Information for the USA and Canada. |