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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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off ladder (OL) alleles
Legal services; DNA forensics
Alleles that size outside allele categories represented in the ladder.
offender hit
Legal services; DNA forensics
A CODIS match between a crime scene profile and an offender profile.
offender index
Legal services; DNA forensics
DNA profiles developed from qualifying offenders and uploaded into CODIS are maintained in the offender index of the database.
Ohm's law
Legal services; DNA forensics
The amount of current flowing in a circuit made up of pure resistances is directly proportional to the electromotive forces impressed on the circuit and inversely proportional to the total resistance ...
oligonucleotides
Legal services; DNA forensics
A molecule usually composed of 25 or fewer nucleotides; used as a DNA synthesis primer.
optical density (OD)
Legal services; DNA forensics
Synonymous with absorbance. Absorbance is the logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a sample.
