Hair Anatomy
Hair Anatomy 2
Hair Analysis
Hair Analysis 2
Animal or Human?
100
The main, long part of the hair
What is the hair shaft?
100
You lose about this many hairs per day
What is 100?
100
Hair evidence for analysis is only used to do this and never to identify
What is to exclude?
100
Hair can be used to compare or also for these two other disciplines.
What is DNA and Toxicology?
100
Have generally similar looking har
What are humans?
200
The base of the hair that contains nuclear DNA.
What is the root?
200
The name of the middle part of the hair that contains the pigment.
What is the cortex?
200
Hair evidence cannot individualize and only shows group characteristics making it this kind of evidence.
What is class evidence?
200
Hair DNA can be taken from the shaft or from the root. DNA from the shaft is known as this.
What is mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA?
200
Have very different styles of hairs and can look drastically different from each other.
What are animals?
300
The name for the end of the hair.
What is the tip of the hair?
300
The name of the innermost part of the hair that can be continuous, absent, or fragmented.
What is the medulla?
300
Hair characteristics like color or length can be determined macroscopically which means this.
What is without a microscope?
300
Hair evidence should be packaged in a special envelope called this.
What is a druggist fold or paper bindle?
300
Have an imbricate cuticle pattern.
What are humans?
400
The name of the mini organ that the hair grows out of beneath the surface of the skin.
What is the follicle?
400
The phase of hair growth where hair fall out.
What is telogen phase?
400
Two hairs can be observed at the same time under this type of microscope.
What is a comparison microscope?
400
Hair can be collected in a variety of different ways. Name two of these ways.
What are vacuuming, tape lifting, tweezers...?
400
Have a spinous or coronal cuticle pattern.
What are animals?
500
The name of the patterned outer part of the hair.
What is the cuticle?
500
The continuous growth phase of hair that lasts about 6 years and most of your hairs are in at once.
What is anagen phase?
500
We do not "match" hair samples, but we can say they are similar using this word.
What is "consistent"?
500
Mitochondrial DNA is passed down through this lineage.
What is maternal?
500
What is an animal hair? (It's a Chinchilla!)