opposite “rails” of the ladder. Id. at 965. The order of the chemical bases is what provides the informational content of the DNA. Id. Everyone’s nuclear DNA can be considered unique, with the exception of identical twins. Id. 7 . In nuclear DNA, there are three billion base pairs of nucleotides, where in the smaller, circular mtDNA, there are only approximately sixteen and a half thousand nucleotide bases. 8 . The DNA is extracted, purified, amplified, and sequenced. 9 . The available database of mtDNA sequences, to which mtDNA profiles are compared to identify whether a particular profile commonly occurs within the population, is relatively small when compared to the database compiled for nuclear DNA profiles. Scott, 33 S.W.3d at 757. In order to tell how rare a mtDNA sequence 2001) (<HOLDING>); State v. Pappas, 256 Conn. 854, 776 A.2d
holding that uncharged conduct may be considered at sentencing when that conduct is proven by a preponderance of the evidence holding that best interest of child need only be proven by a preponderance of the evidence holding science of mtdna sequencing adequately proven at trial holding that reliance must be proven by some evidence holding that counsel was not ineffective for failing to request a frye hearing because there was general acceptance in the scientific community of the particular science at issue at the time of the defendants 1995 trial