The answer is Dr Alec Jeffreys. <span>The genetic fingerprint and DNA profile are used by forensic science to help the police in their research work. The same technique has proved very useful in resolving litigation about paternity, for the identification of human remains in armed conflicts and for the identification of the corpses of historical figures.</span>
The study of how food interacts with genes is known as Nutritional Genomics, that encompasses nutrigenomics, which explores the effects of nutrients in the genome, proteome and metabolome, as well as nutrigenetics, whose main goal is to elucidate the effect of genetic variations on the interaction between diet and disease.