DNA Escape Room

DNa ESCAPE GAME

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Who Robbed the Bank?

THE MISSION

A robbery takes place at a bank. As the thief escapes the building, a security guard grabs one of the bank robber's gloves. The bank robber leaves the scene in a phone service van. The phone company identifies three employees who may have been in the vicinity of the bank at the time of the robbery. All employees deny robbing the bank. Can you think of some way, besides witness testimony, that the bank robber could be identified from among the three individuals?

THE MAP

THE BANK

Were any clues left at the crime scene?

You found the bank Robber's glove!

Follicle

We all leave DNA behind every where we go! DNA can identify people — even better than fingerprints. DNA is found in all of our cells: hair, teeth, bones, blood and skin. Though all humans share 99.9% of their genes, our DNA differs from everyone else's by three million nucleotide base pairs. Inside the glove, your team found a hair from the bank robber. Which part of the hair contains DNA?

Cortex

Way to go!

You uncovered part of the bank robber's DNA sequence, but it's scrambled. Click on the microscope to solve the puzzle for the order of the nucleotides.

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THE MAP

THE Crime Lab

Find the tool you need to keep moving forward

Video Clue

TAGCTAGC

If the sequence of a DNA strand is TAGCTAGC, what are the bases on its complimentary strand?

ATCGATCG

GCTAGCTA

THE MAP

CODIS

Place the DNA evidence in the machine to compare it to suspects in CODIS

WHO Robbed the bank?

Suspect 1

Which suspect’s DNA matches the DNA of the evidence hair at CODIS site AMEL?

Suspect 2

Suspect 3

congratulations

You solved the crime using DNA!

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