Finger Print ID
Lifting Prints
Who's Who?
Finger Printing
Pot Pourri
100
The most common type of fingerprint (65%)
What is a loop?
100
Fast, easy & cheap way "lift" a fingerprint off of a surface?
What is Clear tape?
100
This person created the "Forensics in a Nutshell" dioramas?
Who is Frances Glessner Lee?
100
On a Ten Print card, print is not square?
What is not rolling to finger edge?
100
When fingerprints first develop on a human.
What is 10th week of gestation?
200
This is an example of___
What is a Loop?
200
A bloody finger print is left on a windshield.
What is a Patent fingerprint?
200
The first Fingerprint Identification system in 1980.
What is AFIS (Automated Fingerprint ID System)?
200
On a 10 print card, print is blurry.
What happens when suspect resists printing?
200
Helps distinguish one print from another by the number of ridges between the core and the center of the delta
What is a Ridge Count?
300
The triangles formed by fingerprint ridges are referred to as___.
What are Deltas?
300
A fingerprint is left in a stick of butter after a scuffle at a diner.
What is a Plastic print?
300
Fingerprints pressed into clay tablets in 1700's B.C.
Who are the Chinese?
300
12 to 16 matching points on a fingerprint to be admissible in court.
What is examiners expert opinion?
300
Every individual, has unique ridge characteristic details called minutiae, so not even these relatives, will have the same prints.
What are Identical Twins?
400
Identify 2 different minutiae on this fingerprint:
What is Bifurcation, & Islands?
400
Three ways that one can lift LATENT finger prints in a lab.
What is Cyanoacrilate fuming, Ninhydrin, Iodine fuming, Silver-nitrate?
400
This person pioneered the science of Anthopometry? (And used it to capture the suspect who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911)
Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
400
The maximum of matching minutiae that the US federal court requires for a fingerprint to be admissible as evidence in court?
What is up to 20
400
World’s largest and most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history information.
What is Next Generation Identification (NGI)?
500
What is another name for fingerprinting?
Dactyloscopy
500
This reacts with amino acids to create a purple stain.
What is Ninhydrin reagent?
500
He verified fingerprints do not change with age.
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
500
When 10 print card was first used.
What is the 1800's ?
500
This can be used to pick up prints on plastic, glass and skin, reacts with amino acids and leaves a white print
What is Cyanoacrylate (SuperGlue)?
600
loops entering and exiting from the same direction.
What are Whorl fingerprint characteristics?
600
Combines with carbohydrates when lifting latent prints.
What is Iodine fuming?
600
A literary contribution Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made to the field of forensics?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
600
Infrared Spectro-Microscopy
What is used to analyze prints from someone exposed to explosives/gunpowder.?
600
Only 500 to 1000 dpi
What is the resolution for New Scanning Technology?