Probability calculations are used in forensic applications of DNA fingerprinting to determine if:

A.	DNA from two different sources have matching alleles.
B.	DNA samples were degraded before analysis.
C.	A match between alleles of different DNA samples might have occured by chance.
D.	An unknown DNA sample is from a male or a female.
E.	Alleles in the suspect's DNA are different from alleles of a victim's DNA.

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