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When Gregor Mendel published his studies of inherited characteristics of pea plants in 1866, he probably did not know he was starting a sequence of events that would end in the 1987 conviction of someone in the USA based on DNA evidence.This Report discusses the history and present status of the use of DNA evidence in the United States.How DNA Evidence is Gathered and UsedDNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid consisting of two chains of nucleotides bonded together in a double helix, and is responsible for determining the inherited traits of each individual...

A patent is a government granted right that allows the inventor to exclude anyone else from making, using or selling the invention in the country that issued the patent.The government grants this right to help encourage inventors to spend the time, money and effort to invent new products, technologies and such.In america, the term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees...