Taq polymerase

Taq polymerase – a DNA polymerase (an enzyme) used to amplify a specific DNA
template in the PCR technique.
VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) – in DNA testing, a polymorphic
locus where alleles differ primarily in the number of times that a string of
nucleotides are tandemly repeated. Widely used throughout the 1990’s but largely
replaced by PCR-based STR testing today.