Blood
The most common blood type in the United States.
What is O?
Secure the Scene
What is the first step in the investigation of a crime scene?
Arch, loop, whorl
What are the 3 main categories of fingerprints?
The use of science and technology to enforce both criminal and civil laws.
What is Forensics?
The blood type that shows clumping in the A, B and Rh wells on a well plate.
What is AB+?
A list of all the people who came into possession of an item of evidence.
What is the Chain of Custody?
The database used in the US to store and analyze fingerprint data.
What is AFIS?
12, examples include lake, bridge,spur, ridge ending, dot, bifurcation, island
What is the minimum number of mathching minutiae needed to make a positive Fingerprint ID?
The pointed end of the a bloodstain always faces in this direction.
What is the direction of travel?
A sketch done at the crime scene that includes measurements, location of all evidence, location of the walls, doors, windows.
What is a rough sketch?
The most used method of developing fingerprints at a crime scene.
What is dusting for prints?
The study of teeth in forensics.
What is odontology?
The universal recipient.
What is AB +?
Eyewitness identification (right or wrong) can have a big influence on the outcome of an investigation or trial.
What is true?
A fingerprint impressed in a soft surface.
What is a plastic print?
The type of science used in forensic ballistic investigations.
What is Physics?
The blood pattern created when a source of blood remains stationary over a surface causing an accumulation.
What is pool?
Hair and fibers collected at a crime scene are classified as this type of evidence.
What is class evidence?
The least common type of fingerprint.
What is arch?
Packaging all materials seperately, wearing gloves
How can cross contamination be prevented?