Anatomy
This is the powerhouse of the cell
What is mitochondria?
The three major fingerprint pattern types: loops, arches, and blank
What are whorls?
The branch of forensics dealing with DNA, blood, hair, saliva, and other bodily fluids
What is forensic biology?
The name of the serial killer who sexually assaulted and killed (typically by means of strangulation/blunt force trauma) over dozens of women/girls?
Who is Ted Bundy?
This bizarre stage makes your muscles stiff after death, which is basically the body’s final “I don’t want to get up.”
What is rigor mortis?
This protein gives hair its structure and makes it useful for forensic testing
What is keratin?
These are three of the major characteristics of handwriting analysis
What is pressure, shading, spacing, pen lifts, line quality, ratio/size, connecting strokes, letter formations, baseline habits?
The branch of forensics dealing with drugs/explosives
What is forensic chemistry?
The name of the serial killer who killed and dismembered seventeen people and cannibalized/preserved some of his victims
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
These bloodstain patterns are created without any external force other than gravity or contact
What are passive patterns?
The liver is inspected for this chronic condition often linked to alcoholism
What is cirrhosis?
This term refers to the upward, downward, or straight movement of writing–one of the first things examiners analyze
What is slant?
The branch of forensics dealing with guns and bullets/their casings
What is forensic ballistics?
The name of the football player accused of murdering his wife and a man with evidence of his Bruno Magli shoe prints and infamous glove
Who is OJ Simpson?
The name of the largest DNA database
What is CODIS?
This bone is most commonly used to estimate height in human remains
What is the femur?
This refers to the rarest fingerprint pattern
What is an arch?
The branch of forensics dealing with drugs, alcohol, poisons, and toxins in the body
What is forensic toxicology?
The name of the victim in the unsolved murder case involving a beauty pageant contestant who was six years old when she was found strangled and bludgeoned to death after a ransom note was found
Who is JonBenet Ramsey?
This is the everyday household item that was used in early fingerprint lifting before modern fingerprinting adhesive was invented
What is Scotch tape?
This organ can regenerate itself even if 75% of it is removed
What is the liver?
The other type of arch besides the plain arch
What is a tented arch?
The branch of forensics dealing with the analysis of insects and their larvae to estimate time of death/the state of the body
What is forensic entomology?
The name of the infamous ‘Lipstick Killer’, who confessed to three murders after scrawling a message in lipstick at one of the crime scenes
Who is William Heirens?
The name of the style of autopsy where all of the organs are taken out at once for analysis
What is Letulle?