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Two Parents Believed That Their Baby Had Been Switched with Another

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Two parents believed that their baby had been switched with another couple's baby at the hospital.The other couple was certain that they had their own baby and that the infants had not been switched.All the parents agreed to DNA fingerprinting for themselves and their babies to resolve the issue.The image below represents an electrophoretic gel analysis of microsatellites for two pairs of parents and the babies they had taken home (M1 = mother #1,M2 = mother #2,F1 = father #1,F2 = father #2,B1 = baby #1,B2 = baby #2).Use the data from these profiles to answer the following questions: a)Does baby #1 most likely belong to mother #1 and father #1? b)What evidence is there,if any,that baby #1 cannot belong to mother #2 and father #2? c)Is it possible that father #1 and mother #2 are secretly lovers and are actually the parents of baby #1? d)Is it possible that mother #1 and father #2 are actually the parents of baby #2? e)Is this test sufficient to establish paternity? Why or why not?

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