Atoms Alive

Season 1, Episode 7

Episode Title: DNA Technology

Overview:

Looks at DNA fingerprinting and how DNA technology is probing the genome. This program begins with a forensic lab doing DNA fingerprinting. How we read DNA and some of this technology. Finding and creating genes. Starts with a forensic lab doing DNA fingerprinting and how it is done. Accuracy considerations. Limits of nuclear DNA in tracing lineage - usefulness of tracing the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA. Three ways of isolating or constructing genes in the laboratory.