Crime Scene Basics
Physical Evidence
Blood Basics
DNA Evidence
Prints
100
A second person associated with committing a crime.
What is an accomplice?
100
The most common plant fiber.
What is cotton?
100
The blood type that does not contain A or B agglutinogens.
What is Type O?
100
What cytosine always pairs with.
What is guanine?
100
Impressions left by friction ridge skin on a surface, such as a tool handle, glass, door, etc.
What are latent prints?
200
Database used by law enforcement to compare DNA samples.
What is CODIS?
200
What the abbreviation GSR stands for.
What is gunshot residue?
200
The yellowish liquid part of the blood.
What is plasma?
200
The name of the short video watched in class about DNA evidence.
What is "The Killer's Trail"?
200
The use of this type of powder and UV light helps investigators find latent prints on dark surfaces.
What is fluorescent powder?
300
Evidence that includes eyewitness accounts of an accident or crime scene.
What is testimonial evidence?
300
The universal solvent.
What is water?
300
The protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
300
What the backbone of a DNA molecule is made of.
What are sugar and phosphate molecules?
300
The study of the uniqueness of friction ridge structures and their use for personal identification
What is Ridgeology?
400
Physical evidence that is found at a crime scene in small, but measurable amounts.
What is trace evidence?
400
The substance that makes up hair and fingernails.
What is keratin?
400
The type of blood stain created by the force of gravity and appears as drops or blood pools.
What is passive?
400
The number of DNA base pairs in every human cell.
What is three billion?
400
The chemical that bonds with amino acids in fingerprints and produces a blue/purple color.
What is ninhydrin?
500
The four steps (in order) used to analyze a crime scene.
What are interview, examine, document, and process?
500
The Locard Principle.
What is "when there is contact between two items, there will be an exchange."
500
Indicated the presence of a specific protein in blood.
What is the Rh factor?
500
The year DNA evidence was first used to get a conviction in court.
What is 1987?
500
The fuming method also known as the "Super Glue Method."
What is cyanoacrylate?
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