Explain what CODIS is. Analyze how CODIS has increased the value of DNA analysis? Give an example.
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CODIS is the Combined DNA Index System, which allows federal, state, and local crime laboratories to share DNA profiles of individuals with each other.These individuals could be known offenders but also unidentified human remains or missing persons. Everything happens electronically. States vary in who they require to give a DNA sample. CODIS helps investigators to increase their chances of finding a suspect, who left DNA evidence at a crime scene when the suspect’s DNA is saved in the CODIS electronic system. One example students could give could be that someone who has committed a crime in Wisconsin was saved in the CODIS system there. This person happens to commit another crime in a different state, where this person has never been before, years later and again leaves DNA evidence behind. The investigators working on this second crime might be able to identify the suspect much faster by comparing the DNA with the CODIS database, even though this person has never been to that state before.
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