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Identifying King Richard

In 2012, a skeleton was (Q1) _____________ at the presumed site of the Grey Friars friary in Leicester, the last-known resting place of King Richard III. Archaeological, osteological and radiocarbon dating data were consistent with these being his remains. Here we (Q2) _____________ DNA analyses of both the skeletal remains and living relatives of Richard III. We find a perfect mitochondrial DNA match between the sequence obtained from the remains and one living relative, and a single-base substitution when compared with a second relative. Y-chromosome haplotypes from male-line relatives and the remains (Q3) _____________, which could be attributed to a false-paternity event occurring in any of the intervening generations. DNA-predicted hair and eye colour are consistent with Richard’s appearance in an early (Q4) _____________. We calculate likelihood ratios for the non-genetic and genetic data separately, and combined, and conclude that the evidence for the remains being those of Richard III is (Q5) _____________.

Glossary:

A skeleton - The bones of a body that stay after death
Remains - What is left of a body that has been dead for a long time
To excavate - To remove something from the ground with care
A statue - A representation of something or someone made from a hard material 
A portrait - A realistic drawing or painting of a person 

Source: King, T. et al. (2014) Identification of the remains of King Richard III. Nature Communications, 5: 5631 doi: 10.1038/ncomms6631. [online] Available at http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6631 Accessed: 16/03/17

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* 1. In 2012, a skeleton was  _____________ at the presumed site of the Grey Friars friary in Leicester...

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* 2. Here we  _____________ DNA analyses of both the skeletal remains and...

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* 3. ...the remains _____________, which could be attributed to a false-paternity event ...

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* 4. ...are consistent with Richard’s appearance in an early  _____________..

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* 5. ...the evidence for the remains being those of Richard III is _____________.

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