genetic profiling

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 fingerprinting

   Broaderprocedure

Questions about genetic profiling

What does genetic profiling mean?

genetic profiling 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 profiling?

Close synonyms include genetic fingerprinting. 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 profiling a common word?

genetic profiling 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.