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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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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 defence team appear before the criminal court judge and make pretrial motions. ...
Pretrial conference
Legal services; DNA forensics
A meeting of the parties to a case conducted prior to trial. The conference is held before the trial judge or a magistrate, a judicial officer who possesses fewer judicial powers than a judge. A ...
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.
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).
Presumptive test
Legal services; DNA forensics
A screening test used to indicate the possible presence of the named body fluid.
Primacy
Legal services; DNA forensics
The tendency is for people to believe the most and the longest what they hear first.
