DNA Paternity Testing Glossary

Guanine
Guardian ad Litem (GAL)
Guidelines (Child Support)
Haploid
Hardy-Weinberg Law
Heredity
Heterozygosity
Heterozygote (heterozygous)
HLA
Homologous
Homozygote (homozygous)
Hybridization
Hypervariable
Inclusion
Indirect Exclusion
Infant
Isotope
Judgment
Judgment, Divorce
Kilobase
Locus (pl. loci)
Long Arm Statute
Linkage Disequilibrium
Marker
Mean Probability of Exclusion
Mediation
Membrane
Microgram
Milliliter
Mitochondria
Molecular Biology
Molecule
Monomorphic Probe
Motion
Multilocus Probe
Mutation
Nanogram
Non-Custodial Parent (NCP)
Notary Public
Nucleotide
Obligate Gene
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Parens patriease
Parentage Judgment
Paternity Index (Likelihood Ratio)
PCR
Phenotype
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphic Locus
Population
Population Database
Population Substructure
Polymorphism
Population Genetics
Power of Exclusion (A)
Presumption of Paternity
Primer
Prior Probability (Pr)
Private case
Pro Se; Pro Se Appearance
Probability of Paternity (W)
Probe
Product Rule
Proficiency Tests
Protein
Protocol
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Random Man
Random Man Not Excluded (RMNE)
Recessive
Red Cell Antigens
Replication
Restriction Enzyme
Restriction Fragment
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)
RE Test Gel
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
Scanner
Serology
Service by Publication
Service of Process
Single Locus Probe
Southern Blotting
STR
Support Order
T
Taq DNA Polymerase
Testimony
Thymine
Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNRT)
Visitation
Visitation, Grandparent
Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage
Wage withholding
Yeld Gel