Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Making a caseAs part of its crime-ighting program, the government proposes a law

that will require all citizens of all ages, including children and infants at birth, to provide

DNA samples. These samples will then be registered in a nationwide database. Do you

agree with this proposed law or not? Give reasons and examples to support your answer.

Bibliography

“CODIS—Crime” (Federal Bureau of Investigation), http://www.i.gov/about-us/lab/codis/

codis_crime.

“DNA Forensics” (Human Genome Project Information, June 2009), http://www.ornl.gov/sci/

techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/forensics.shtml.

Fridell, Ron, DNA Fingerprinting: he Ultimate Identity (New York: Grolier Publishing, 2001).

“How many people have been exonerated through DNA testing?” (he Innocence Project), http://

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/How_many_people_have_been_exonerated_through

_DNA_testing.php.

“What are the causes of wrongful convictions?” (he Innocence Project), http://www.innocence

project.org/Content/What_are_the_causes_of_wrongful_convictions.php.