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DNA forensics

The application of the science of DNA to analyze evidence involved in criminal and civil litigation.

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DNA forensics

pretrial motions

Legal services; DNA forensics

Motions that are made before the actual trial. After the preliminary hearing and before a trial, the prosecutor and the defense team appear before the criminal court judge and make pretrial motions. ...

primacy

Legal services; DNA forensics

The tendency is for people to believe the most and the longest what they hear first.

primer

Legal services; DNA forensics

A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase.

primer dimer

Legal services; DNA forensics

Formed by intermolecular interactions between the two primers (i.e., self-dimers and cross-dimers).

privilege

Legal services; DNA forensics

Those communications, written or verbal, between certain classes of persons which cannot be reached by the opposition in the dispute-resolution process.

probability

Legal services; DNA forensics

The chance of observing a particular future event; a simple ratio of the number of observed events divided by the total number of possible events.

probability calculations

Legal services; DNA forensics

Predictions based on small sampling of a larger population.

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