Forensic Basics
A person who studies evidence from a crime to help solve what happened.
What is a forensic scientist?
A person in this career studies bullets and ammunition.
What is ballistics?
This type of evidence can be collected and touched.
What is physical evidence?
This type of evidence is unique to every individual person. Fingerprints are an example of this type of evidence.
What is individual evidence?
The genetic material in all living organisms and some viruses. (must write out full word(s))
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The tool that is used to see items up close, such as hairs, fibers, and even fingerprints.
What is a microscope?
A person in this career studies dental evidence, such as bite marks.
What is odontology?
Category of evidence that can be associated with only a group and never a single source/individual.
What is class evidence?
What are the two parts of a fingerprint?
What are ridges and valleys?
The event in NYC that led authorities to create one of the biggest DNA collection records to date.
What is 9/11?
The reason a person commits a crime.
What is a motive?
A person in this career compares genetic material from crime scenes, suspects, and victims. They work with tiny amounts of DNA.
What is a DNA analyst?
This type of evidence is in the form of verbal or written statements.
What is testimonial evidence?
Roughly this percentage of fingerprints in the global population are arches.
What is 5%?
The three steps of gel electrophoresis that are required to allow us to see DNA evidence.
What are cut, copy, and separate by size?
The statement of where a suspect was at the time of a crime.
What is an alibi?
A person with this career analyzes evidence from vehicular accidents; may include ballistic evidence and blood splatter.
What is a physicist?
This type of evidence is found in very small amounts. Examples include hair, fibers, and DNA evidence.
What is trace evidence?
The three basic patterns of fingerprints.
What are whorls, loops, and arches?
The two types of tire evidence collected from tire impressions left on a crime scene. One helps us determine the brand of tire. The other helps determine the direction the car went and the size of the car.
What are tire tread patterns and tire tracks?
The original location of a crime scene or accident.
What is a primary crime scene?
A person with this career tests bodily fluids, tissues, or organs to determine or identify the presence of drugs, poison, or other chemicals.
What is a toxicologist?
This type of evidence is created when an object contacts a surface with enough force to leave a print.
What is impression evidence?
The study of the uniqueness of friction ridge structures and their use for personal identification.
What is ridgeology?
The medical examiner performs this type of examination on a dead body to determine what? (2-part question)
What is an autopsy to determine the time of death?