Inspired by a report that I can’t link to, because it’s just come in on newswires and isn’t on the WWW yet, concerning a woman who (the prosecution alleges) had had sex with several men, due to “sperm from several other men apart from the three
was found inside” her.
My question is how do they separate the different types of sperm exactly? Do they have to do it on the individual sperm?
You could do a DNA test, and depending on the technique you used, you could see that there were several different patterns present.
Ah OK thanks. So all sperm from the same guy would have near identical/identical DNA? So if they analysed 10 little wigglers and found six different patterns, etc etc?
I can’t imagine they analyse them all though. I guess there is always a probability that by chance/luck they analyse x amount which are all from man A rather than man B.
I wonder how many they analyse, and how long it takes to do each one.