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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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Refraction
Legal services; DNA forensics
The deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (as air) into another (as glass) in which its velocity is different, or the action of ...
Recombinant DNA
Legal services; DNA forensics
Altered DNA resulting from the insertion into the chain, by chemical, enzymatic, or other biological means, of a sequence (a whole or partial chain of DNA) not originally (biologically) present in ...
Reciprocal discovery
Legal services; DNA forensics
Some jurisdictions enable a prosecutor by motion to request that the defence provide specific discovery material to the prosecution.
Reflection
Legal services; DNA forensics
When light strikes a surface and then leaves at the same angle. Angle in=angle out. The production of an image by or as if by a mirror.
Recombination
Legal services; DNA forensics
The reversal of coupling phase I meiosis as gauged by the resulting phenotype. See also Recombinant DNA above.
Trichoschisis
Legal services; DNA forensics
A condition characterised by brittle hair with a transverse crack or a clean break.
