Blood typing has been used in the past as a forensic tool during crime scene investigations. Today, most forensic scientist use DNA from blood as a means to identify victims and perpetrators. Why would blood typing identification be phased out of forensics? How can blood be used for DNA analysis if red blood cells do not have a nucleus?
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Blood typing can only determine the blood type of an individual, which is shared by a significant portion of the population. This means that blood typing can exclude certain individuals as sources of the blood, but it cannot definitively identify an individual. On Show more…
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