Edexcel A Level Biology A Topic 6 - Forensics (1/2)

A* level notes on topic 6 (Immunity and Infection) covering Forensics:

• how we identify people (fingerprints, dental records, DNA profiling using short tandem repeats)
• the uses of DNA profiling, and the process (how DNA is obtained and amplified, and definitions of each process and key words)
• the process of PCR, through each cycle (1,2,3)
• gel electrophoresis and the process
• how we determine time of death (via temperature, via rigor mortis, via decomposition and the stages of succession of decomposing, and the roles of microorganisms in decomposition, forensic entymology)