Question

FORENSIC SCIENCE, PLEASE HELP ASAP Investigators find a hair clasped in the fist of a dead victim. Upon close examination, they realize there is follicular tissue attached to that hair. What could investigators use to prove that the hair in the victim's fist belonged to a specific suspect? A) The medulla. B) Nuclear DNA. C) Mitochondrial DNA. D) Physical comparison.

Answer 1

Answer:

C) Mitochondrial DNA

Explanation:

Mitochondrial DNA can help forensic scientists in recovering the follicular tissue that is attached to the hair, they can find out the specific suspect from that hair.

Mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited and enables forensic scientists to trace maternal lineage.

Answer 2

Answer:

Mitochondrial DNA

Explanation:

Mitochondrial DNA should be used to prove that the hair in the victim's fist belonged to a specific suspect. Mitochondrial DNA enables scientists to trace maternal lineage from which it can be known that who is the suspect.