Forensic Science and Crime Scenes
Fingerprints
DNA
Handwriting
Blood
100
The three branches of forensic science
What is Field, Lab, and Medical Science?
100
The 3 specific classes for all fingerprints
What is arch, loop, and whorl?
100
The letters used to describe a genetic code
What is C, A, G, and T?
100
The act of falsely making, altering, or imitating (as a document or signature) that is not yours
What is forgery?
100
A dispersion of blood spots of varying size caused by an external force
What is blood spatter?
200
This is drawn when a body needs to be removed from a crime scene
What is a body outline?
200
These two fluids are left behind on the surfaces of the things we touch
What is sweat and oil?
200
This is what DNA stands for
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
The process of comparing an unknown writing sample with a sample from a known writer and determining whether the two samples belong to the same person
What is handwriting analysis?
200
A type of blood spatter that is formed by an object directly striking a source of exposed blood
What is impact spatter?
300
All forensic investigations involve comparing evidence from _____ samples to _____ samples
What is unknown samples to known samples?
300
This is the most common type of fingerprint
What is loop?
300
The term used to refer to the shape of DNA
What is double helix?
300
Other than their hands, an individual's handwriting can be recognized when writing with these two other body parts
What is mouth and feet (between toes)?
300
A type of blood spatter that is formed from blood leaving an object due to its motion
What is castoff spatter?
400
A type of evidence that is found at the place where crime did not take place
What is secondary evidence?
400
Fingerprint evidence is good, but humans aren't perfect when they look at fingerprints, so it can be s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
What is subjective?
400
In a genetic code, this letter always pairs with C
What is G?
400
This sentence is used to analyze handwriting because it includes every letter in the alphabet
What is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?
400
A bloodstain that looks like this is known as what?
What is a swipe/transfer stain?
500
Forensic Scientists want to find the truth; therefore, they must be o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in their investigations
What is objective?
500
A fingerprint that looks like this is known as what?
What is a double loop whorl?
500
This is a specific pattern of DNA attributes that is obtained in a laboratory and can be used to identify a specific individual
What is a DNA profile?
500
An individual cannot exactly reproduce their own handwriting because of this principle
What is variation/natural variation?
500
Draw up here on the whiteboard what a bloodstain traveling from left to right would look like
Hopefully you got that right