This so-called "DNA testing" is little better than throwing chicken entrails and probably less effective than floating witches. On a scale of genuine science, it's on a par with lie detection, and despite the highly-publicised cases, it's not something that most reputable forensic scientists would use if they could get the number of a reliable psychic.
I hope people realize that this is just plain wrong. And this posting is full of incorrect information and pseudoscience. A human genome is 3 billion bases long. More importantly, every single cell in your body has all 3 billion of them (okay, red blood cells don't have any DNA in them, but that's an exception). Any tissue sample will contain many identical copies of all 3 billion of them, junk and genes alike. The poster doesn't realize that the junk is in fact the most informative part when comparing individuals.
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This so-called "DNA testing" is little better than throwing chicken entrails and probably less effective than floating witches. On a scale of genuine science, it's on a par with lie detection, and despite the highly-publicised cases, it's not something that most reputable forensic scientists would use if they could get the number of a reliable psychic.
I hope people realize that this is just plain wrong. And this posting is full of incorrect information and pseudoscience. A human genome is 3 billion bases long. More importantly, every single cell in your body has all 3 billion of them (okay, red blood cells don't have any DNA in them, but that's an exception). Any tissue sample will contain many identical copies of all 3 billion of them, junk and genes alike. The poster doesn't realize that the junk is in fact the most informative part when comparing individuals.
That's enough criticism for one post.