The study of motion, dynamics, angular movement, and effects of projectile units (bullets, missiles, and bombs).
What is 'Ballistics'?
Statement of where a suspect was a the time of a crime.
What is an 'Alibi'?
Smallest unit of textile materials, spun to form a yarn that can be woven or knitted to form a fabric.
What is a 'Fibre'?
Shoeprints, tool marks, tyre tracks, bite marks, marks on fired bullets.
What are different types of impressions?
Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets.
What makes up blood?
The transfer of materials that cannot be seen with the unaided eye in small but measurable amounts.
What is 'Trace Evidence'?
Person associated with someone suspected of committing a crime.
What is an 'Accomplice'?
Thickness, density, colour, opacity, clarity, shape, surface texture, refractive index.
What are the properties of glass?
How soft or hard something is; the material it is made of; amount of force
What does the quality of an impression depend on?
Sugar molecules, phosphate, molecules, adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine.
What is DNA made of?
The application of ________ to associate a person(s), whether suspect or victim, to a location/s, an item/s, another person (victim or suspect, respectively).
What is 'Biology'?
An alternate location where additional evidence may be found.
What is a 'Secondary Crime Scene'?
Types of glass fractures.
What do the terms 'radial' and 'concentric' mean?
What are the different types of whorl fingerprints?
What can blood spatter show investigators?
The deliberate and malicious burning of property.
What is 'Arson'?
Individual present to determine cause of death.
What is a 'Medical Examiner'?
Cuticle, cortex, medulla.
What is 'the structure of hair'?
Photography, dusting and tape lifting, electrostatic dust lifting.
Specific to 2D or 3D?
What are 2D methods for collecting impression evidence?
Universal Recipients.
What is the AB- blood type known as?
The study of effects of drugs on biological systems.
What is 'Toxicology'?
Oral or written statements given to police as well as court testimony by people who witnessed an event.
What is 'Testimonial Evidence'?
Diameter, shape, colour, length, texture, natural or synthetic, DNA
What are types of evidence collected from hair and fibre?
The friction of skin ridges on a surface.
How are latent prints left?
What is the acronym for the Rhesus factor?