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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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Expert opinion
Legal services; DNA forensics
An opinion offered by an expert witness — a major exception to the general rule of evidence, which typically requires that testimony be based on personal knowledge. Because of their knowledge, ...
Expert testimony
Legal services; DNA forensics
Presentation of verbal or written evidence in the dispute-resolution process in a scientific, professional, technical or specialised field, usually beyond the knowledge of laymen.
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 polynucleotide molecules.
Expert witness
Legal services; DNA forensics
A person who, because of education, training or experience, has special knowledge not held by the general public.
Expert system
Legal services; DNA forensics
A software programme or set of software programmes designed to rapidly process data without human intervention.
Expected heterozygosity
Legal services; DNA forensics
Mean value of all the expected values found for all loci in a sample.
Exogenous DNA
Legal services; DNA forensics
DNA originating outside an organism that has been introduced into the organism.
