types of evidence
fingerprinting by the numbers
Things Forensic Past
fingerprints
λατινικά or Graeca
100

Deoxyribonucleic acid is this type of evidence.

What is biological or associative?

100

This is the percentage of loop patterns found within fingerprint patterns.

What is about 60 percent?

100

This is the 'stiffening' of muscles after death for 2 to 24 hours.

What is rigor mortis?

100

Fingerprints are considered this type of evidence.

What is biological or associative?

100

Daily! You must wager half of your score or 500 points whichever is higher. or...Double! Pass this option to the team of your choice (turn will resume from the team chosen).

This is one of the greek or latin roots which means two.

200

Finding a button with no apparent source.

What is trace evidence?

200

This type of fingerprint pattern is found 35 percent of the time.

What is a whorl?

200

Livor mortis is the settling of this liquid from the effects of gravity after death.

What is blood?

200
Latent fingerprints are composed mostly of this.

What is water or sweat?

200

This is to devour meat.

What is carnivore?

300

This 'chain' is important for the integrity of the investigation.

What is custody?

300

Arches are found five percent of the time, or one in this.

What is twenty?

300

In general, algor mortis will occur at 1.50F per hour. This is how many hours it would take a decedent to reach 900F.

What is five to six hours?

300

Daily! You must wager up to your score or 1000 points whichever is higher. or...Double! Pass this option to the team of your choice (turn will resume from the team chosen).

This should always be done before collecting a dusted print with tape?

300

This is a 'false foot' such as found in an amoeba.

What is a pseudopod?

400

Compromised evidence may be found this, or unusable in court.

What is inadmissible?

400

Trick! You must lose 400 points or you may choose the 2nd option.

You must send the two members of your team with first names closest to the letter A to the next clockwise team.

400

A skeletal pelvis with a circular cavity shape, a greater sciatic notch of 75 degrees, and a subpubic angle of 96 degrees would mostly likely be from this gender of individual.

What is female?

400

Fingerprint patterns are not caused by DNA coding but instead by this.

What is the fetal position of the individual during gestation? 

400

This type of morphosis occurs after the pupa stage for a maggot.

What is meta or metamorphosis?

500

Uncontaminated surface material close to an area where physical evidence has been deposited is known as this.

What is a substrate control?

500

When a fingerprint is visible, it is known as this.

What is patent?

500

A poisonous snake was purposely released into a house and bites someone within who later dies. Their death would be considered this manner.

What is homicide?

500

To create permanent changes to your fingerprint patterns, damage must occur to this layer of skin.

What is the dermal papillae underneath the epidermis? (Dermis is acceptable.)

500

In the cellular division of eukaryotic cells, this is the 'ending' phase of division.

What is telophase?

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