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I'm not sure if the term intestine is technically appropriate for the digestive tract of an insect, but whatever the proper label is for insects, if an insect had just eaten some human tissue, then it could possibly contain some human DNA. However, the human DNA would most likely be heavily denatured and degraded by digestion. The process of digestion is highly destructive for nucleic acids and it is likely that the DNA would be reduced to individual nucleotides and oligonucleotides rather than long stretches of human chromosome.

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