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Name: Nica
Status: Student
Grade:  4-5
Location: N/A
Country: United States
Date: August 2007
Question:
i just want to know how DNA and forensic science helped in reuniting a baby boy with his parents.


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By comparing the number of copies of various "junk" DNA genes in the child and parents, you can show with a million to one or higher probability that the presumed parents are the real parents.

Ron Baker, Ph.D.


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