Unit 1: History of Forensics
The study and application of science to matters of law.
What is Forensic Science?
Blood is ___________ __________ that carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, and carries carbon dioxide and other waste products back to the lungs, kidneys and liver for disposal.
What is living tissue?
Over 3,000 years ago fingerprints were used in this ancient country.
What is China?
What is a DNA sample?
Shoeprints, tool marks, tire tracks, bite marks, and rifling marks on a bullet are several examples of _________.
What is Impression Evidence?
The following _________ is necessary to be Forensic Scientist.
Not Squeamish
The ability to be around dead people is a must.
Can't be reluctant to dig through garbage or dirty laundry.
What are skills of a Forensic Scientist?
This chemical is used by crime scene investigators to locate traces of blood, even if it has been cleaned or removed.
What is Luminol?
This famous case in 1903 helped to change remove the Bertillion System due to its failure to accurately identify suspects.
Who is Will West?
These FOUR things help Forensic Anthropologist identify a skeleton.
What is Age, Stature (height/build), Gender, and Race?
Length, Width, Height/Depth of a piece of evidence collected at a scene by using a cast and then photographed.,
This is the earliest record of forensic science.
What is 3rd Century China?
This is the yellowish liquid portion of blood that contains electrolytes, nutrients and vitamins, hormones, clotting factors, and proteins such as antibodies to fight infection.
What is Plasma?
60% of people have this fingerprint parttern.
What are Loops?
Immovable joints between bones, especially in the skull that appear as "ZIG-ZAG" lines and develop more as you age.
What are Sutures?
Traits shared by a group that narrow evidence to a category.
What are "Class" characteristics?
The invention of the
Polarized Light Microscope.
What is 1828?
People with TYPE O blood are called_________?
What is a Universal Donor?
The uniqueness of a fingerprint can be determined by analyzing its _______ and ________
What are ridges and valleys?
A smooth more vertical frontal brow ridge aligns with this gender.
What is a female?
Unique features caused by wear, damage, or defects that can link an impression to one specific object.
What is an "Individual" characteristic?
The Bertillion system used _____________ which included the following:
A detailed description and measurement of the subject.
Eleven measurements were used to distinguish individuals.
These included height, reach, width of head, and length of foot, etc.
What is Anthropometry?
Small drops of blood that break off from the parent spatter when the blood droplets hit a surface.
What are Satellite Spatters?
This mammal fingerprints are remarkably similar to human fingerprints and it is quite difficult to distinguish between the two.
What is a Koala?
Topsoil and subsoil mixed together. It might indicate a burial spot.
What is Disturbed Soil?
These two skull bones work together to hold the teeth and form the jaws — one moves for chewing while the other stays fixed.
What are the mandible and maxilla?