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- mr. & mrs. jones just gave birth to fraternal twins- bob and jane. unfortunately, the nurse has confused the jones twins with 4 other babies. the doctors took samples of dna from each of the babies and mr. & mrs. jones. which of the 6 children are mr. & mrs. jones twins?
Step1: Understand DNA fingerprinting
DNA of offspring is a combination of parental DNA. Compare baby - DNA with parental DNA.
Step2: Analyze the DNA bands
Look for babies whose DNA bands match a combination of Mr. and Mrs. Jones' DNA bands.
Step3: Identify the twins
By visually comparing the DNA banding patterns of each baby with those of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, we find the two babies with the most consistent matches to the parental DNA.
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Without seeing the actual comparison results in the DNA fingerprinting image (assuming we could analyze it), we would identify the two children whose DNA banding patterns most closely match a combination of Mr. and Mrs. Jones' DNA banding patterns as their twins. If we had to make a guess based on a proper analysis of the bands in the image, we'd point out those two specific children. Since the image content isn't fully interpretable in text - form here, the general process is as described above for actual identification.