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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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Ohm's law
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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 ...
Optical density (OD)
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Synonymous with absorbance. Absorbance is the logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a sample.
Partially degraded DNA
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Forensic DNA evidence exposed to environmental conditions that may prevent it from yielding a usable profile.
Paternal inheritance
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Genetic material which is inherited from one's father; for example, the possibility that mtDNA can be inherited from one's father.
Partial profile
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DNA evidence that does not yield identifiable results in all 13 core loci.
Ovoid bodies
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Oval-shaped heavily pigmented bodies that may occur in the hair cortex.
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