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Forensic Science Geek of the Week
- Forensic Science Geek of the Week
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- The challenge will be posted Sunday morning 12 noon EST.
- Answers to the challenge will be entered by responding to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com FaceBook fan page.
- All comments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
- The first complete and correct answer will be awarded the envious title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Forensic Science Geek of the Week”
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- The winner will be announced Sunday night.
- A winner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eligible again. This person, who was the two time in a row winner, may answer the question, but will be disqualified from the honor so as to allow others to participate.
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Here it is:
The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Forensic Science Geek of the Week” challenge question. Remember the first full and complete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo displayed, bragging rights for the week and finally website promotion.
OFFICIAL QUESTION:
1. Identify this piece of equipment
2. Basically, how does this work?
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Mehul B. Anjaria says:
This is an Applied Biosystems 3130 Genetic Analyzer. It is a capillary electrophoresis instrument that is used in DNA analysis. DNA fragments labeled with fluorescent tags during the PCR process travel through the instrument’s capillary under the influence of electrical charge. A laser is shone through a window in the capillary causing the fluorescent-labeled DNA to give off a signal that the instrument can detect. The output of the instrument showing ‘peaks’ indicating DNA detected is called an electropherogram. The instrument separates DNA fragments by size.
The 3130 can run 4 DNA samples simultaneously in 4 capillaries. There are other variations of this sort of instrument with less and more throughput potential. The ‘raw’ data from the instrument is further processed through software so that the analyst can determine the DNA types of crime scene samples and known samples. The instrument is also used in DNA sequencing for applications such as mitochondrial DNA testing.