Four Decades After the End of the Vietnam War, the Remains

question 79

Multiple Choice

Four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the remains of an Air Force pilot were discovered and returned to the United States. A search of Air Force records identified three families to which the remains might possibly belong. Each family had a surviving twin of a missing service member. The following STR profiles were obtained from the remains of the pilot and the surviving twins from the three families.

-Based on analysis of the STR sites shown, does the missing pilot belong to any of these three families?

• A) No, none of the families match.
• B) Yes, family 1 matches.
• C) Yes, family 2 matches.
• D) Yes, family 3 matches.

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Definitions:

Fusiform Face Area

A region in the temporal lobe of the brain that helps us recognize the people we know.

Prosopagnosia

The inability to recognize familiar faces.

Magical Thinking

Belief in causal relationships between actions and events which logically cannot be justified by reason and observation.

Causal Attribution

A mental process of figuring out the reasons behind certain behaviors and outcomes, attributing them to internal or external factors.