DNA typing

The volunteers also provided a cheek swab for DNA typing.

One textbook, “Forensic DNA Typing,” is considered to be the Bible by many forensic DNA analysts.

That number ballooned to 15,000 species when the team discovered, through the use of DNA typing, or “bar coding,” that many of the species were actually made up of multiple distinct species, as many as 11 in one case.

This was DNA typing, exactly the same technology used by the courts to determine paternity.

It said a report about to be released by the National Research Council would reject "DNA fingerprinting," also known as DNA typing.