genetic fingerprinting

1. 1.

   the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification

   Synonymsgenetic profiling

   Broaderprocedure

Questions about genetic fingerprinting

What does genetic fingerprinting mean?

genetic fingerprinting means "the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification".

What is another word for genetic fingerprinting?

Close synonyms include genetic profiling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genetic fingerprinting a common word?

genetic fingerprinting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.