We have reason to believe that during a paternity test for a child custody case that the mother may have replaced the alleged fathers swabs with her own since she was not tested. She worked at the lawyers off the test was done at and the envelope with test was handed to her unsealed. The test for the mother was missing from the kit. Is it possible to tell if the DNA submitted on the swab was from a male or female? Would that require additional testing or does anyone know if that is part of the standard DNA paternity testing?
2006-10-03 16:31:42 · 4 answers · asked by J C 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Yes. The mother would not have a Y chromosome; the father by definition will have one. I do not know if this is part of the standard paternity testing, but it should be fairly trivial to demonstrate.
2006-10-03 16:35:18 · answer #1 · answered by apolitical 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because on your set of DNA there are genes, and these genes contain chromosones; which you can pull all 23 sets off. And as you prob. know your 23 pair is the X or Y chromosone. So there will be need a little more testing to be done.
2006-10-04 00:51:42 · answer #2 · answered by todd h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so ask the court to allow an independant lab to do the test over.
2006-10-03 23:40:14 · answer #3 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes as the dna is different
2006-10-03 23:45:03 · answer #4 · answered by mozzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋