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Dna Fingerprint Case Study

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Describe how a technician would collect a fingerprint from a weapon that could possibly have touch DNA on it as well as fingerprints. How would you collect the possible DNA? Which would you collect first? As we go about our day we inadvertently leave behind our unique friction ridge impressions in items we come in contact with. Within those impressions, sebaceous secretions, eccrine sweat and apocrine sweat reside on our pores containing our individualized DNA. Therefore, small traces of DNA in one’s skin cells are transferred to the items we come in contact with. With the recent advances in DNA technology, only seven or eight cells from the outermost layer of our skin is required to process the DNA. When collecting samples from fingerprints

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