This is the principle that states any contact between individuals or objects will produce transfer of evidence in both directions between them.
What is Locard's Principle of Exchange?
100
This is the term used for the proper transfer of evidence from one investigator to others throughout the investigation and/or trial?
What is the chain of custody?
100
The cuticle is the outer layer of a hair shaft. These are the other two layers.
What are the medulla and cortex?
100
These are the only 3 different patterns of possible fingerprints.
What are loop, whorl, and arch?
100
These are 3 examples of natural fibers.
What are cotton, silk, wool, hemp, cashmere, asbestos, angora, etc.?
200
This is a type of evidence that can only narrow the search to a group of individuals.
What is class evidence?
200
This is a folded piece of paper used to hold evidence.
What is a paper bindle?
200
This is the part of the hair that must be present in order to conduct DNA analysis.
What is the follicle (root)?
200
These are the 3 different 'types' of fingerprints the CSI's look for?
What are patent, plastic, and latent?
200
These are 3 examples of synthetic fibers.
What are nylon, rayon, spandex, polyester, acrylic, etc.?
300
This type of evidence includes firsthand observations of incidents by witnesses and video cameras.
What is direct evidence?
300
This is the name of a location other than where the crime was committed, but that is still relevant to the pursuing investigation.
What is a secondary crime scene?
300
This is the layer of hair that contains the pigment.
What is the cortex?
300
This is the layer of skin in which fingerprints are formed.
What is the basal layer?
300
This is the term for the transfer of evidence, such as a fiber from a source (like a carpet or animal) to a person, then to another person.
What is secondary transfer?
400
This is indirect evidence that can be used to imply a fact, but does not necessarily prove it.
What is circumstantial evidence?
400
These are 5 of the 7 S's of CSI.
What are: Securing the scene, Separating the witnesses, Scanning the scene, Seeing the scene, Sketching the scene, Searching for evidence, and Securing (and collecting) evidence.
400
This is the average rate at which human hair grows.
What is 1.3 cm/month.
400
This is the name of the small triangular region found near the bottom corner(s) of most fingerprints patterns.
What is a delta?
400
This is what AFIS stands for.
What is Automated Fingerprint Identification System?
500
This is the name of the study that found that eyewitness testimony was responsible for up to 87% of all wrongful convictions.
What is The Innocence Project?
500
These are all 5 members of a CSI team (NO REPEATS).
Who are Police/First Responders, CSI (evidence collectors, photographers, etc), Medical Examiner/Coroner, Detectives, and Scientific Specialists (entomologists, psychologists, etc).
500
These are the 3 phases of hair growth.
What are anagen (growth), catagen (growth/change), and telogen (dormant)?
500
This is the name for the number of lines present in a fingerprint from the center of the fingerprint to the triangular region.