194 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
Defense Attorney: Now this process, besides the electropherogram, you use
what’s called a PCR process, correct?
Forensic Science Student: Yes, that’s correct.
Defense Attorney: And it’s polymerase chain reaction, correct?
Forensic Science Student: Yes.
Defense Attorney: And the polymerase chain reaction involves a catalyst
that’s derived from Taq polymerase, some organism that grows in
hot springs, in volcanic springs, correct?
Forensic Science Student: Yes, that’s correct.
Defense Attorney: OK, and it’s sensitive to variations in heat, correct? Temperature?
Forensic Science Student: Yes.
Defense Attorney: OK, and what it does is it makes DNA, under the right
conditions, essentially go ...