DNA
This is the percentage of DNA that is identical among all humans.
What is 99%?
Fingerprints are considered to be this type of evidence.
What is individual evidence?
This person secures the scene and ensures the safety of everyone present.
What is a first responder?
A person's blood type is considered this type of evidence.
What is class evidence?
This explains how death occurred. There are five possibilities:
- natural
-accidental
-suicide
-homicide
-undetermined
What is 'manner of death'?
This process uses DNA to predict a suspect's physical appearance, such as eye color and face shape.
What is DNA Phenotyping?
These are the most common fingerprints.
What are loops?
This person does the documentation (sketches and photos) and physical collection of evidence at a crime scene.
What is a crime scene investigator?
This type of surface produces blood drops w/ more spines and sattelites.
What is a rough surface?
This is the specific injury, trauma, or disease that directly caused the victim's death.
What is 'cause of death'?
This is a DNA profile obtained from just a few skin cells left behind on a surface.
What is Touch DNA?
These are invisible fingerprint impressions left by natural oils and sweat.
What are latent fingerprints?
This person interviews witnesses and follows leads.
What is a detective?
This is the shape of a blood drop that strikes a surface at less than a 90 degree angle.
What is a long oval with a tail?
This is the study of human remains applied to a legal context.
What is forensic anthropology?
This occurs when DNA moves from a person to an object or second person, and then to a crime scene the original person never visited.
What is secondary transfer?
These are the small, unique fingerprint ridge details used to identify individuals such as ridge endings and bifurcations.
What are fingerprint minutiae.
What is chain of custody?
This determines the direction of travel for a blood drop.
What is the "tail" of the bloodstain?
This is the study of insects and their relation to a criminal investigation.
What is forensic entemology?
This is the Combined DNA Index System.
What is CODIS?
powder dusting and chemical reagents
What are two techniques used to make latent fingerprints visible.
This is an elected official in a smaller county who has legal authority to investigate deaths, especially those that are sudden, unexplained, or involve possible criminal activity.
What is a coroner?
This is found by following the tails of the stains backward to find where the victim was standing.
What is the 'Point of Origin' for blood spatter?
This is an appointed physician with specialized training in forensic pathology who conducts autopsies in urban areas.