A Detective Finds a Miniscule Spot of Blood on a Murder

question 65

Multiple Choice

A detective finds a miniscule spot of blood on a murder suspect's shirt.What method would she expect the police lab to use to get enough DNA from the blood droplet to perform DNA fingerprinting?

• A) inserting the blood's DNA into viral DNA
• B) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
• C) inserting the sample's DNA into a plasmid
• D) using ligases to bond the DNA fragments together for sequencing

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