28 October 1998

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Term Paper Title	28 October 1998
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	6.16

28 October 1998
The Effects of DNA Testing
     Every day some form of DNA testing takes place.  This form of testing involves only a small percentage of people around the world.  However, it usually affects them in a huge way.  DNA testing affects crime, the medical and science fields, and people in general.
     In recent years the effects of DNA testing in crime have been tremendous.  Foren-sics scientists have the ability to try and match blood from one crime scene or piece of evidence to another.  These tests and analysis, which are a favorite of the prosecution, are often used to link a suspect to a crime.  For example, Marsha Clark of the O.J. Simpson case prosecution team described a “trail of blood” pointing to Simpson’s guilt.  DNA tests were performed and bloodstains from Simpson’s Bronco matched Goldman’s blood, Simpson’s and Nicole Simpson’s.  The prosecution then nailed the defense with these results.  However, the reverse is also true.  When a suspects blood does not match up, then he or she is proven innocent (Childley 62 & 63).
     Considering that the odds of a sample of DNA being the same as another are about a billion to one, it is virtually impossible to fight the results (Childley 62).  Since July of 1997, eighty-six hits have been made by comparing the DNA of convicted killers and rapists with DNA evidence left at the scene of the crime (Hallifax B8).  Coinciden-tally, just before the Simpson verdict, DAN tests appeared to vindicate the late Dr. Sam Sheppard in the famed 1954 murder of his wife.  Many people were freed after

years in jail due to the innocence project pioneered by defense lawyer, Barry Scheck.  DNA evidence is playing a reluctant and accelerating role in the vital numbers of the in-nocent in jail or on death row (“Fugitive Justice” 4).
     DNA testing has also been a big effector in the medical and science fields.  A vi-tal gene called p53 was detected by DNA testing.  If this gene is not present or damaged in any way, cancerous diseases will turn malignant.  Alterations of p53 seem to be in-volved in the majority of human cancers.  Another way the medical and science fields are affected is the use of gene history.  The history of genes in certain individual’s body can be used to precisely predict a certain genes outline in his or her offspring (Rogers 42).
     In addition, diseases can be diagnosed due to DNA testing.  For instance, eighty percent of colon cancers involve p53.  Without testing, this fact would have never been b...

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