Fingerprints
The characteristic that makes a fingerprint unique to every single person, even identical twins.
What are ridge patterns or minutiae?
a hidden, or invisible to the eye, print.
What is a latent print?
The center or core of a hair.
What is medulla?
If fiber evidence is not collected within 24 hours, this amount of evidence is lost.
What is 95%?
The most important tool for a forensic scientist is to do this.
What is observe, interpret, and record observations clearly?
3-D prints left in soft material such as clay or mud.
What are plastic prints?
A small triangular detail on a fingerprint.
What is a delta?
The part of the hair that contains color granules.
What is the cortex?
Natural fibers come from these.
What are animals, minerals, and plants?
Forensic science is concerned with evidence that does this.
What is stands as fact?
Fingerprints are formed at this time.
What is 10 weeks gestation?
The federal database for fingerprints.
Humans only have this type of cuticle.
What is imbricate?
This type of natural fiber develops from a seed: flax, silk, cotton, or hemp.
What is cotton?
Liquid and arson evidence should be stored in this manner.
What is in air-tight, unbreakable containers?
The center of a fingerprint.
What is the core?
What is the expert opinion of two fingerprint experts?
Hair is this type of evidence.
Class evidence unless it has a follicular tag that contains DNA, then its individual evidence.
What is acrylic?
Fibers are considered to be this type of evidence.
What is class evidence.
Fingerprints form in this layer of skin.
What is the dermis?
4 methods of developing latent fingerprints
What are superglue fuming, ninhydrin, iodine fuming, fingerprint powders?
Hair is made up of this.
What is keratin?
When completing a burn analysis of fibers, the three observations made by the criminalist.
What is the odor, does it melt or char, and the color/structure of the burnt remains of the fiber?
The difference between direct and indirect evidence.
What is direct evidence can be tied to an individual and indirect evidence is circumstantial?