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I- Use your notes to answer the following questions based on the lecture.

1. What is the lecture mainly about?


a. how doctors use DNA testing to cure diseases
b. how to create a DNA fingerprint and some uses
c. types of genetic disorders that cause diseases

2. In what order does the speaker present the topics?

a. medical uses, privacy concerns, creating a DNA fingerprint

b. creating a DNA fingerprint, privacy concerns, medical uses

c. creating a DNA fingerprint, medical uses, privacy concerns

3. What is DNA fingerprinting? Choose TWO answers.

a. making a copy of a person’s DNA

b. creating a set of data about someone using DNA

c. creating an “ID” of someone using DNA samples from different


parts of the body

4. What’s one way a crime lab can use DNA testing?

a. to identify a car accident victim

b. to look for DNA matches between a suspect and evidence from a


crime scene

c. to let the police know there was a crime

5. What is the connection between genetic disorders and disease?

a. Genetic disorders increase the risk of getting a disease.

b. Scientists know genetic disorders always cause diseases.

c. Scientists don’t know if there’s a link between genetic disorders


and diseases.

6. What is the speaker’s general attitude toward DNA testing?

a. DNA testing is very beneficial.

b. There are privacy issues we need to consider.

c. DNA testing should be done more often.


II- Decide if the statements below are true (T) or false (F) according to the
lecture. Correct the false statements.

1._______ Another way to say “DNA fingerprint” is “DNA profile.”

2. _______ The speaker thinks it’s statistically likely that a brother and
sister will have

identical genetic information.

3. _______ DNA testing proved that Marie Antoinette’s son escaped from
prison.

4. _______ A crime lab uses probes to see if DNA samples from a suspect
match DNA

samples from evidence at a crime scene.

5. _______ The more probes that match, the stronger the case against
the suspect.

6. _______ Scientists have found that DNA identification in a crime lab is


100% foolproof.

7. _______ According to the speaker, there are more than 16,000 genetic
disorders.

8. _______ The speaker says that mutation-a change in a gene-will


definitely cause a

disease.

9. _______ The speaker says that one benefit of DNA testing is that it
might save

someone’s life.

10. _______ The speaker is concerned about who should have access to
someone’s DNA

profile.

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