DNA is a big step for science. Discuss.

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Student: Kristian Byrialsen        Essay         

Subject: English A

Date: 4. September

Content:

A: Summary

B: Translation from Danish to English

C: Essay  

A: Summary:

This text is from New Scientist, 5 may 2001. It’s written by David Concar and the name of the text is “The DNA-police”. This text deals with collection of human DNA. For years, have the police in Britain collected saliva swabs from almost every person they have taken into custody, and it wasn’t important if the person was innocent or guilty. Today they have a database with over a million DNA-profiles, and it gets better everyday, because the crime never stops. But now some people in Britain are getting worried, because they mean that it’s discriminating and a threat to privacy. Since the police started to take DNA-profiles of the people, they have established more than 100.000 links between people and unsolved cases, so of course it has been a success. But still people don’t want to have that risk to be a part of a crime they didn’t commit. It actually happen for a man called Raymond Easton for a couple years ago. He had been in a minor accident, and therefore he had to give a DNA-sample to the police. And then 3 years later, his DNA-profile came up on in a case, and he became a main suspect in a case that he never had committed.    

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B: Translation:

With its new DNA-register the police expect gradually to track down perpetrators to a succession so far, unsolved killing, rape robberies around in Denmark. The Danish Police Forces new DNA- section has therefore approached every single head of a station in the criminal police everywhere in the country and sought after old cases, where still unknown perpetrators have left biologically tracks. Temporarily are there a dozen cases received.  On 1st. July the start signal sound to the much discussed DNA-register, there ...

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