Can Ordinary Cotton Swabs Be Used For DNA Testing?
DNA testing has been around for a few years now, but since it is not everyday that DNA tests are needed by everyone, there are still some questions left answered. For one, what is DNA testing? DNA testing is the process of taking biological samples from an individual, treating this biological sample and mapping out its code in order to extract information about the individual. Since each individual have unique codes, there are no two DNA test results that can be completely similar. However, biological families, ethnic groups and individuals with common ancestors are similar in some of their DNA alleles. Thus, DNA tests nowadays are popularly used to determine paternity, percentage of blood relation between siblings, twin DNA tests, grandparents DNA tests. And since DNAs are unique in each individual, DNA test are also used in forensic science and criminal investigation to determine perpetrator of a crime, much like fingerprints but only with more technically complicated process of trea
