Murder Mystery
Evidence of Work
For this project, we were given clues about a murder and we had to take the clues and determine who was the murderer. The clues we got included: finger prints, a note, pens from each suspect, and blood. We had to use method like ink chromatography to trace back to who committed the crime. In the end, we believe that it was Nancy Normal who killed Carlton Comet and we made a presentation using all our evidence from the case.
Content
Fingerprinting:recording a finger print of someone
Ink chromatography: spectating the ink into many colored dyes that made up the ink from a pen
Karyotypes: A profile of someone’s chromosomes
Pedigrees: A way to organize a families genetic history
DNA structure: DNA is a nucleotide that is held by a double helix
DNA replication: the process in which the DNA goes through to replicate itself for cell division
Genetics:
Alleles: variation of a gene
Dominant: traits that are always expressed if present
recessive: traits that are not always expressed when present
Co-Dominant: both traits are expressed
Incomplete Dominant: a mix of both traits
Phenotype: The physical traits that are determined by the genetic makeup
Genotype: genetic makeup of an organism
DNA Mutations:
Duplication: Repetition of a letter in a sequence
Insertion: the addition of one or more nucleotide pairs
Repeat expansion: A mutation caused by slippages of DNA replication
Deletion: the polymers slips on the template and doesn’t add a base pair
Nonsense: A stop codon is in the DNA sequence before it is supposed to be
Frame shift: A genetic mutation that shifts the way that the sequence is read
Substitution: a mutation that exchanges one base pair for another
Misscense: a single nucleotide chance which then results in the coding of a different codon
Ink chromatography: spectating the ink into many colored dyes that made up the ink from a pen
Karyotypes: A profile of someone’s chromosomes
Pedigrees: A way to organize a families genetic history
DNA structure: DNA is a nucleotide that is held by a double helix
DNA replication: the process in which the DNA goes through to replicate itself for cell division
Genetics:
Alleles: variation of a gene
Dominant: traits that are always expressed if present
recessive: traits that are not always expressed when present
Co-Dominant: both traits are expressed
Incomplete Dominant: a mix of both traits
Phenotype: The physical traits that are determined by the genetic makeup
Genotype: genetic makeup of an organism
DNA Mutations:
Duplication: Repetition of a letter in a sequence
Insertion: the addition of one or more nucleotide pairs
Repeat expansion: A mutation caused by slippages of DNA replication
Deletion: the polymers slips on the template and doesn’t add a base pair
Nonsense: A stop codon is in the DNA sequence before it is supposed to be
Frame shift: A genetic mutation that shifts the way that the sequence is read
Substitution: a mutation that exchanges one base pair for another
Misscense: a single nucleotide chance which then results in the coding of a different codon
Relfection
This project was a fun project. It was our chance to see what detectives do to figure out crimes that happen. Throughout the project, my group had ups and downs. We didn’t have a big group for a lot of the time and it was difficult to get all the work done in time. We didn’t divide the work evenly among our group so that it didn’t fall on just one person. We didn’t prepare as much as we should have. That effected how we presented and we didn’t get the result that we wanted. However, it was still a fun project to do and I’m glad that I was a part of it in the end.