Glass Examination
Hairs and Fibers
Drugs and Toxicology
DNA and Serology
Potpourri
100

Type of glass formed by bonding together two sheets of ordinary glass with a layer of plastic

What is laminated glass?

100

The outside covering of the hair shaft

What is the cuticle?

100

This drug is synthesized from lysergic acid derived from the ergot fungus

What is LSD?

100

A person's blood type if it agglutinates when adding anti-B serum and anti-D serum

What is B+?

100

This is the man who invented dynamite

Who is Alfred Nobel?

200

The property of glass measured by the flotation method.

What is density?

200

The first ever manufactured fiber, developed in 1911

What is rayon?

200

This is the psychoactive component in marijuana

What is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)?

200

The full name for DNA

What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

200

These are the three necessary ingredients for a fire

What are fuel, air (oxygen), and heat?

300

The property of glass measured with a hot-stage microscope

What is refractive index?

300

The initial growth phase of hair where the follicle is actively producing hair

What is the anagen phase?

300

A violet/blue color in the Dille-Koppanyi test would indicate the presence of this class of drugs

What are barbiturates?

300

The color test used to determine the presence of blood in a stain

What is the Kastle-Meyer test?

300

A device that permits only requested traffic to enter a computer system.

What is a firewall?

400
Defined as the separation of light into its component wavelengths

What is dispersion?

400

One of two methods used to determine the dye composition of fibers

What is visible-light spectrophotometry or chromatography?

400

In gas or liquid chromatography, this is the time required for a component to emerge from the column from the time of its injection

What is retention time?

400

The name of the technique for replicating a portion of a DNA strand outside a living cell

What is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?

400

The first thing you should do when encountering computer evidence.

What is procure a search warrant?

500

The name for the stress markings on glass edges that can be used to determine the side on which a window was first cracked

What are Wallner lines?

500

Name of the man convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders, based on fiber evidence.

Who is Wayne Williams?

500

This Category A test yields a spectrum that is a "fingerprint" of one substance, so long as the substance is pure

What is infrared spectrophotometry?

500

A technique that simultaneously detects more than one DNA marker in a single analysis

What is multiplexing?

500

This is a method that identifies and measures elements through light energy emitted by excited atoms after they are exposed to a hot plasma

What is inductively coupled plasma (ICP)?

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