Fingerprints
The three main fingerprint pattern classes are loops, whorls, and these.
What are arches?
This molecule carries genetic information in nearly every cell of the human body.
What is DNA?
The priority of the first responder arriving at a crime scene.
What is providing emergency care and securing the scene?
This professional organization's acronym AAFS stands for what?
What is the American Academy of Forensic Science?
What was Mrs. Kristi’s major at USM?
What is Criminal Justice?
These fingerprints are generally invisible without special visualization methods.
What are latent fingerprints?
These four nitrogenous bases make up DNA.
What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine.
Wet evidence should always be dried and then packaged in this material.
What are paper bags?
MDIAI, which you should attend in the spring, stands for what?
What is the Mississippi Division of the International Association for Identification?
What is Arthell Kelley Hall (AKH).
This powder is commonly applied with a brush to develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces?
What is fingerprint powder?
This laboratory technique amplifies specific DNA sequences.
What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
This principle states that when two objects come into contact, a cross transfer of materials occurs.
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
What is the Combined DNA Index System?
Who is Richard Swearengin.
This fingerprint pattern classes typically has two deltas.
What are whorls?
This type of DNA is inherited through the maternal line.
What is mitochondrial DNA?
Crime scene documentation method that records the precise location of physical evidence by measuring its straight-line distance from two distinct fixed reference points
What is triangulation method?
For those of you who fear Richard's wrath, the methodological acronym ACEV stands for what?
What is Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation, and Verification?
This individual is who the new Criminal Justice Building is named after.
Who is Paul H. “Bud” Holmes.
This database system is used to search and compare fingerprint records.
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What is Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
What are STR’s (short tandem repeats)?
The search patterns that may be used to search a crime scene for evidence
What are line, grid, spiral, wheel, and quadrant?
LiDAR, a measurement technology that costs slightly more than the standard tape measure, stands for what?
What is Light Detection and Ranging?
What are Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Criminal Justice and Anthropology.