Back to the Basics
This entity maintains the largest crime laboratory in the world.
What is the FBI?
This crime scene search pattern is used for large, outdoor areas and requires more than one investigator.
What is a zone pattern?
A blood pattern caused when an object with blood on it touches one that does not have blood on it.
What is a transfer pattern?
This type of writing is a partially visible impression appearing on a sheet of paper underneath the one on which the visible writing was done.
What is indented writing?
This microscope has the largest potential working distance.
What is a stereomicroscope?
They are the "gatekeepers" when determining the admissibility of scientific evidence.
Who are trial judges?
The database for DNA.
What is CODIS?
What is a loop?
Overwriting or crossing out writing is known as this.
What is an obliteration?
In biometrics, the process by which a person's data is captured and stored in a database for future use.
What is the enrollment process?
Refers to the concept of "general acceptance."
What is the Frye Standard?
Fire debris from an arson scene should be packaged in this type of evidence container.
What is an airtight metal can?
The pressure of the pumping of oxygenated blood out of an injury forms this type of blood pattern.
What is a projected pattern?
The name of the header on a fax machine printout.
What is a TTI?
This database houses tread information for footwear impressions.
What is SICAR?
He is considered the father of forensic toxicology.
Who is Mathieu Orfila?
This method can be used to calculate the overall frequency of occurrence of a blood type in a population by using a series of blood factors that occur independently of each other.
What is the product rule?
Time of death can be approximated by analyzing levels of this in vitreous humor.
What is potassium?
This type of electromagnetic radiation can be used to uncover the writing of words that have been crossed out.
What is infrared radiation?
This is what the FBI's acronym NPPS stands for.
What is the National Palm Print System?
The necessity for the forensic scientist to appear in court comes from this U.S. Supreme Court case.
What is Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts?
The database containing chemical and color information for automotive paints.
What is PDQ?
This chemical can be used to visualize latent prints based on its interaction with protein material.
What is ninhydrin?
This separation technique can be used to compare the chemical composition of inks on handwritten documents.
What is thin layer chromatography?
This microscope would be employed to determine if someone had recently fired a weapon.
What is a SEM?