Genetic fingerprinting – probability of false match?
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has a range of simple Web pages that set up a problem in a context using GCSE level Maths.
- Chance of false matches in DNA matching (genetic fingerprinting) is a useful leader for a lesson on combined probabilities – and directly useful to Forensic science students!
- Mistaken DNA Identification has been an issue in the UK courts, and as the DNA database grows, more issues may emerge. Many people in the UK have some degree of relatedness…
- The birthday problem appears in a new guise