A Moment of Science
Learn about the trashy side of DNA on this Moment of Science.
Of course, using DNA to identify race raises many difficult ethical questions. After all, in the past, pseudo-scientific racial divisions provided justification for atrocities like slavery and the Holocaust.
It doesn’t even matter that we’re not related. DNA is a pattern or sequence of nucleotides, right? You might also remember that there are actually only four different nucleotides, and that they’re arranged in pairs.
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