Forensics Project:
Here is a packet our group made with all the evidence we accumulated:
Reflection:
Forensics was an entirely new field of science for me. For the first time, I was able to use gel electrophoresis to observe DNA fingerprints. Also, I had always heard about people's different blood types when people donate blood. I learned that people have blood types depending on which antibodies clot in which antigens. The four blood types in the ABO blood system were blood type A, B, AB, and O. I had a very fun experience with the legal portion of the project. In fact, Mr. Watson, my AP Euro teacher, had a cousin who attended UCLA Law School. We facetimed him, and he told us the difference between accomplice and accessory. An accomplice is usually present at the crime, while accessory is when the criminal isn't present. It truly was an enlightening project.
I'd like to know more about how different samples can be manipulated or tampered with. How would you be able to depict if contamination occurred? In the law portion, I'd like to know the amount of education lawyers need in forensics. In order to strongly fight your point you need to know how the evidence was collected. It would be nice if the lawyers could be experts on gel electrophoresis, karyotyping, and chromatography.
I felt our project went exceptionally. For next year, I would spend more time researching the legal part. Our group asked family friends who were lawyers which helped tremendously. Also, the experiments and evidence collection should be more private. We all had very similar results which cold be prevented if finding the evidence was our responsibility.
I thought that I was always on task during the project. Over the Thanksgiving break, I finished up the evidence packet, added to the powerpoint presentation, and practiced how I would present the information to the jurors. During the presentation, I fumbled with my words periodically but I gave clear explanations for each experiment we conducted. Next time, I would focus more on the scientific aspect of the presentation not the organization of it. The technical parts are what you forget talking in front of people. Our group stayed on task preparing for the presentation. We all contributed to the evidence packet and ere responsible for the slides in the powerpoint we would present. Our presentation went pretty well, but we could have read from the slides less to add an extra confidence factor the jurors could see. In the future, our group should try to look at cases with more creativity. We expressed our ideas in a professional way, but they were unoriginal and very cookie cutter. All in all, this forensics project gave me a new look on CSI.
Forensics was an entirely new field of science for me. For the first time, I was able to use gel electrophoresis to observe DNA fingerprints. Also, I had always heard about people's different blood types when people donate blood. I learned that people have blood types depending on which antibodies clot in which antigens. The four blood types in the ABO blood system were blood type A, B, AB, and O. I had a very fun experience with the legal portion of the project. In fact, Mr. Watson, my AP Euro teacher, had a cousin who attended UCLA Law School. We facetimed him, and he told us the difference between accomplice and accessory. An accomplice is usually present at the crime, while accessory is when the criminal isn't present. It truly was an enlightening project.
I'd like to know more about how different samples can be manipulated or tampered with. How would you be able to depict if contamination occurred? In the law portion, I'd like to know the amount of education lawyers need in forensics. In order to strongly fight your point you need to know how the evidence was collected. It would be nice if the lawyers could be experts on gel electrophoresis, karyotyping, and chromatography.
I felt our project went exceptionally. For next year, I would spend more time researching the legal part. Our group asked family friends who were lawyers which helped tremendously. Also, the experiments and evidence collection should be more private. We all had very similar results which cold be prevented if finding the evidence was our responsibility.
I thought that I was always on task during the project. Over the Thanksgiving break, I finished up the evidence packet, added to the powerpoint presentation, and practiced how I would present the information to the jurors. During the presentation, I fumbled with my words periodically but I gave clear explanations for each experiment we conducted. Next time, I would focus more on the scientific aspect of the presentation not the organization of it. The technical parts are what you forget talking in front of people. Our group stayed on task preparing for the presentation. We all contributed to the evidence packet and ere responsible for the slides in the powerpoint we would present. Our presentation went pretty well, but we could have read from the slides less to add an extra confidence factor the jurors could see. In the future, our group should try to look at cases with more creativity. We expressed our ideas in a professional way, but they were unoriginal and very cookie cutter. All in all, this forensics project gave me a new look on CSI.