Double helix.
What is the shape of DNA?
Patterns created from the force of gravity.
What are passive bloodstains?
Everyone has their own unique version of this.
What is a fingerprint?
Inward spiral searching.
What is a method of searching a crime scene?
The application of science in criminal and civil laws.
What is forensic science?
What kind of charge does DNA have?
Negative charge.
What is a gene?
The study of ridge patterns of the skin.
What is dermatoglyphics?
The original location of a crime or accident.
What is a primary crime scene?
They search for evidence in the form of bodily fluids that are found at a crime scene.
What are serologists?
Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine
What are the four types of nitrogen bases in DNA?
Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Plasma
Arches, loops and whorls.
What are the 3 main groups of fingerprint classes?
What are the 3 types of evidence?
What are anthropologists?
Nitrogenous base, sugar molecule, phosphate group
What are nucleotides made out of?
What is the universal recipient?
AB+ blood type
Macello Malpighi
Who first noticed fingerprints had common patterns?
They take photos of the crime scene to collect as evidence.
What is a crime scene photographer?
A method for examining mixtures by separating them into the chemicals of which they are made out of.
What is chromatography?
The sample is boiled down with a detergent and breaks down the proteins and other cellular material but not the DNA.
How is DNA extracted and recovered?
Which blood type can only receive itself?
O- blood type
Who had 200 million fingerprints on file by 1971?
The FBI
What does VPFSD stand for?
Victorian Police Forensic Services Department
How is Rf calculated?
Distance moved from origin by component divided by the distance moved from origin by solvent.