LESSON 1.1
A tool in which the sensors record physiological changes in heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, skin conductivity, and/or perspiration.
What is a polygraph test?
The specific injury, trauma, or disease that directly caused the victim's death
What is the cause of death?
What is entomology?
The application of scientific knowledge to resolve questions of civil and criminal law.
What is forensic science?
A scientist that has training in life science with a focus on medicine.
What is a biomedical scientist?
The point from which forensic scientists take all their measurements.
What is the point of origin?
The formula used to approximate the postmortem interval, the time since death.
What is The Glaister equation?
someone possibly involved in a criminal investigation who has not been arrested or formally accused of a crime.
Who is a person of interest?
The separation of nucleic acids or proteins on the basis of their size and electrical charge for analytical purposes.
What is gel electrophoresis?
A scientist that processes a crime scene by documenting the scene through observations, notes, sketches, and photographs.
Who is a forensic technician?
The text on a crime scene sketch that includes the date, time, location, and temperature.
What is the legend?
An organ system that breaks down food to extract energy and nutrients and then evacuates remaining waste.
What is the digestive system?
The pooling of the body following death that causes a purplish red discoloration of the skin; also referred to as lividity.
What is livor mortis?
The stiffening of joints and muscles after death
What is rigor mortis?
Scientists who determine how a computer hacker got into a secured system, or to check the security of a bank's computer systems.
Who is a digital forensics investigator?
The building blocks that DNA is made up of.
What are nucleotides?
The study of the microscopic anatomy of tissues. Also known as microanatomy.
What is histology?
The circumstances that result in death, which are designated as natural or unnatural
What is manner of death?
In forensic investigations and medical cases, the person who has died.
Who is the decedent?
A physician who performs an autopsy when a death might have been caused accidentally or intentionally. In some jurisdictions, the Medical Examiner may also serve as the coroner.
Who is a medical examiner?
Variations in DNA fragment sizes produced when DNA is cut with restriction enzymes. The variations in length are due to differences in each organism’s DNA sequence.
What are restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs)?
The second largest vein in the human body. Returns blood to the right atrium from the upper half of the body.
What is the superior vena cava?
The tracking and proper documentation of a piece of evidence, following it from collection through every person that has had contact with it.
What is the chain of custody?
A process used to carefully plan experiments in order to investigate scientific questions or problems.
What is experimental design?
The field of forensics that focuses on identifying the role any substances may have played in an illness or death.
What is forensic toxicology?