One advantage of mtDNA analysis is that it is significantly more sensitive than nuclear DNA profiling. The disadvantages are that mtDNA analysis is more time consuming, and more costly than nuclear DNA profiling. Also, mtDNA has far less discrimating pow

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CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) is a computer software program developed by the FBI that maintains local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime-scene evidence, and profiles of missing people. CODIS is useful to forensic scientists because it allows them to compare DNA types recovered from crime-scene evidence to those of convicted sex offenders and other convicted criminals.

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The standard for ______________ is broader than that for admissible evidence; it only has to be reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence

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Describe shaken baby syndrome and its consequences in adequate detail

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Recruitment, ________________, and staffing are proper and necessary staffing functions of each supervisor

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