These are the three main types of fingerprints
What are arches, loops, and whorls?
Before fingerprints were used as forensic evidence, they were used in this manner in China?
What is to make contracts and agreements binding?
The scientific name for a fingerprint is this.
What is a dermatoglyph?
What is the FBI?
Crime scene prints that are seen without dusting are called these.
What are patent fingerprints?
This is the most common type of fingerprint.
What is loop?
Who is the Father of modern fingerprints?
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
Fingerprints are not the only body parts with unique patterns. Name two others.
What are the palms, footprints, (and lips and ears)?
Fingerprints form early during what stage of development?.
What is the fetal stage?
The paperwork in which fingerprints of all individual fingers is collected is called this.
What is a ten-card?
This fingerprint type most closely resembles a bullseye
What is whorl?
The arrest of this person ended the use of body measurements as a form of personal identification?
Who is Will West?
There are many different types of minutiae. Name 4.
Answers will vary.
The three types of prints found by investigators at a crime scene are these.
What are patent, latent, and plastic prints?
"A center of a loop or whorl" is the definition of this minutia in fingerprint identification.
What is the core?
This fingerprint pattern does not contain deltas
What is arch?
The fictional detective used fingerprints to solve crimes before they were used by law enforcement?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This processing techniques can be used to visualize latent fingerprints paper.
What are magnetic powder and ninhydrin?
Patterns found in this part of the eye are also unique and can be used to identify individuals just like fingerprints can.
What is the retina?
This substance is used to reveal latent fingerprints on paper, cardboard, or unpainted surfaces.
What is ninhydrin fuming?
This fingerprint pattern can be subcategorized into plain and tented.
This question requires two correct answers to get full points. This person, in this year, is credited with solving the first murder case using fingerprints.
Who is Alphonse Bertillon, in 1902?
This pattern is the second most common pattern of fingerprints, and this percentage of the population has it.
What are whorls, at 35%?
IAFIS, a service that provides digital automated fingerprint searches 24 hours a day, stands for this.
What is the Integrated, Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
Using this chemical agent to collect latent fingerprints will result in the prints being purple-blue in color.
What is ninhydrin?