Forensic Chemistry Option

This is a page for HSC Chemists and it has links that may help your understanding of this Option.

A good place to start is HSC online which outlines the syllabus requirements and has links to other websites that you may find interesting.

The University of Sydney has a webpage with lots of links too.

The website for our text book Conquering Chemistry does not have an up-to-date section on Forensic Chemistry but there is some information relating to the previous edition that might be of use. You could also try the online resources for Chemistry 2, an altrnative HSC text. Scroll down to Chapters 19 and 20.

Electrophoresis

Check out these animations of gel electrophoresis – used to analyse DNA samples:

A simple animation of the process.

This one also lets you play.