Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Would transposons not impact a DNA fingerprint taken at two different times in the person's life?

I know that class I transposons experience a "copy and paste" type movement. This would actually increase the amount of bp in the genome. Would this not change a person's genetic material over a period of time? How would gel electrophoresis be reliable to examine cold case crime scenes if the suspect's DNA could have changed over the past decade??

No comments:

Post a Comment