Can dust have DNA?

Question

Can dust from your house hold your DNA since dust is made up of 90% skin tissue?

Answer 1

yes but may be corrupted due to other materials effect

Answer 2

If it contains Dead skin from a human or some sort of animal than the answer is yes and most chances dust will carry dna of a human or animal I mean really think about it you have dust in your house And humans Shead dead skin evey second of there Life from the time they are born....So yes Dust can carry human dna But no Dna Of their Own But the dna of in the dust will be of many people due to the amount of people living in this house and number of animals With modern science they can tell human dna from animal dna so they will break it down to human and amimal and go from there....This is where it gets tricky since no one persons dna is the same they wil be able to have the dna of all peoples living in the house and of all peoples whom visted the home.....Many suspects But only one case in the end they can get your dna from dust after Ruling out all other Person's ans animals Does This answer you ?

Answer 3

If dust could only talk
What would we hear it say?
Before it's brushed aside
Just as it's swept away

It's just the evidence
It's of no consequence
It's only flesh and bone
Why don't you leave it alone?

If dust could only speak
Caught in a falling beam
If dust could only cry
If dust could only scream
For it's the single witness that might testify
Could I spit out the truth?
Or would you rather just swallow a lie?

But dust is always caught behind a coat of pain
Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints
And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape
Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape

Before they start to wander
Or they start to shrink
You rub your eye a little and appear to blink
And then she caught you staring
She knows what you're thinking
What got into you is not a ghost as such
It was just dust

Here comes the juggernaut
Here come The Poisoners
They choke the life and land
And rob the joy from us
Why do they taste of sugar?
Oh, when they're made of money
Here come the Lamb of God
And the butcher's boy, Sonny

Well, I believe we just
Become a speck of dust…

Answer 4

In the most minute amounts. DNA for testing, though, requires a larger amount of tissue than the tiny dried skin cells you'll find in dust.

Answer 5

Yes.. Dust can be dirived from different parts of the world. Everything has a unique DNA signature.

Answer 6

Yeah I guess it can. But the dust would also hold DNA from other people living in the house as well as animals (like pets and rodents and roaches and other insects), and also bacteria and whatever else people trekked in on the bottom of their shoes from outdoors......the mind boggles!!!

Answer 7

Don't forget that dust contains bacterias and viruses wich contains DNA for sure,but in case of the dust it self i think that it's no way that it has DNA.

Answer 8

According to Wikipedia only 70% is from skin cells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust). If this is true, it contains DNA, but not only yours, but everybody's living in the house, even of your dog or cat

Answer 9

it can, but its very difficult if not impossible to get.. considering dust in your home consist of multiple people and dirt.. if all the dust in your home was from one person then that person must have skin problems

Answer 10

I'm sure it could, but not so sure it is viable since it is dead skin tissue, unless of course you are falling apart a bit at a time.

Answer 11

yes it can. unless you're talking about dust dust - that is dirt.