What would happen if someone got convicted of murder (or something) and they found out who commited the crime only from DNA samples and that person was an identical twin. How would they be able to tell which twin, triplet, etc. commited the crime, considering identical twins have the same DNA.
2007-03-10 09:47:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Although identical twins have the same genotype, or DNA, they have different phenotypes, meaning that the same DNA is expressed in different ways.
2007-03-10 09:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
hopefully the police would have more evidence than just the DNA.. Otherwise that may be enough for "reasonable doubt" in a trial.
But as they said on the Simpsons.. Everyone knows when there is a pair of identical twins, one is the evil and one the good twin.
2007-03-10 10:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would probably investigate the validity of each twins alibi. They would also look into trace evidence in the form of fibers, residue, and fingerprints to link a particular individual to a crime scene. Remember: Twins DO NOT share the same fingerprints.
2007-03-10 09:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by Suz E. Home BAKER 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, and that's why. Intuitively, you are able to already determine why it would not paintings as you think of by way of fact the comparable father and the comparable mom don't have indentical infants. replace the father along with his same twin and the mother together with her same twin, and you're dealing with the condition of two infants from the comparable mom and dad having the comparable point of kinship. in case you assume that the father has Aa chromosome, and the mother has Bb, then the infants must be Ab, AB, aB or ab. Multiply for all 23 pairs of chromosomes. At maximum, cousins of same twin mom and dad could be as close as brothers and sisters, not greater.
2016-12-14 15:48:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can't. Identical twins have the exact same DNA, that's why people say that identical twins are the closest thing to clones that we will ever know.
2007-03-10 09:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG!!!! That is a great question!!!! I have no clue. I never thought of that.......WOW! I'm amazed. I'm going to chek up on this to see the answers becuase I'm interested now!!!
2007-03-10 09:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lie detectors, eye witnesses, fingerprints-- no one has the same fingerprints...
2007-03-10 09:51:39 · answer #7 · answered by Princess_n_Pink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't have the same DNA.
2007-03-10 09:51:36 · answer #8 · answered by Wocka wocka 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yeah, that was one of my favorite shows, too.
2007-03-10 09:51:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
fingerprinting
2007-03-10 12:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by glamour04111 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋