Maternity is a term that refers to the state of being mother in biological terms. Maternal is a term derived from the noun maternity and suggest anything from the instinctual need to become mother to the nurturing role played by a mother in a child’s life. Issues of maternity clearly have a legal bearing in that it can involve the legal recognition of one’s biological child. A Maternity DNA Test is carried out for different reasons to the Paternity DNA Test, but is carried out in exactly the same way, providing an exclusion rate of 100% and an inclusion rate of 99.99% for the biological mother.