DNA analysis, which has proven to be a major advance in the field of paternity testing, involves the direct examination of the genetic material that a child inherited from its biological parents. DNA is located throughout the human body and in the same identical form.
In a plant with a taproot system, the taproot is the largest, most central, and most dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally. Typically a taproot is somewhat straight and very thick, is tapering in shape, and grows directly downward.
1. A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot. 2. The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.arrot-promise of reward as in carrot and stick; used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote; reward, reinforcement-an act performed to strengthen approved behavior.