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• n  biometric identification obtained by examining a person's unique sequence of DNA base pairs; often used for evidence in criminal law cases

• DNA fingerprint
• genetic fingerprint

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• Social media, DNA typing help identify source of foodborne strep outbreak
  Facebook posts helped alert public health officials to a strep throat outbreak among a high school dance team in 2012, and DNA fingerprinting led investigators to pasta prepared by a previously ill parent as the likely source. Although strep throat, or Group A Streptococcus pharyngitis, usually spreads from person to person by droplets, foodborne transmission is possible.
  July 18, 2013 - Science Daily