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Legal services

The services involving law-related matters such as the issuing of legal opinion,filing and pleading, as well as the issuing and defending of law suits among many others.

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evidentiary samples

Legal services; DNA forensics

A generic term used to describe physical material/evidence discovered at crime scenes that may be compared with samples from persons, tools, and physical locations.

excluded

Legal services; DNA forensics

Two samples cannot have come from the same source.

exclusion

Legal services; DNA forensics

A DNA test result indicating that an individual is excluded as the source of the DNA evidence. In a criminal case, "exclusion" does not necessarily equate to "innocence." This ...

exculpatory evidence

Legal services; DNA forensics

Any evidence that supports the defendant's claim of innocence or may show he is guilty of a lesser crime than that with which he is charged.

exogenous DNA

Legal services; DNA forensics

DNA originating outside an organism that has been introduced into the organism.

exonuclease

Legal services; DNA forensics

An enzyme that cleaves nucleotides one at a time from an end of a polynucleotide chain. An enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds from either the 3' or 5' terminus of a ...