“…genetic information from trees allowed them to fight back against the thieves. Richard Cronn, a research geneticist for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service, showed in court that the sold lumber matched the remains of the three chopped trees. Prosecutors said the likelihood of a false positive was one in an undecillion—a one followed by 36 zeros.”
Source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70695360/lumber-poacher-foiled-by-tree-dna-evidence/
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