Qualitative Analysis
Name at least 2 methods used by forensic scientists to identify substances.
What is the flame test, iodine test, benedict's test, solubility test, and pH test?
The most common fingerprint.
What is a loop?
Made up of dead cells.
What is hair?
Name 2 of the 3 basic cuticle structures of hair.
What are coronal, spinous, and imbricate?
A method to separate complex mixtures.
The compound necessary for a flame test to change color.
What is chlorine?
The database of fingerprints used to exonerate or implement somebody in a crime.
What is AFIS?
The charge (positive or negative) of DNA.
What is negative?
Pairs with adenine.
What is thymine?
Combined DNA Index System.
What is CODIS?
The pH range of an acidic substance.
What is 1-6?
Unique ridges and valleys on a fingerprint.
What are minutia?
What is 8?
The blood type that has ONLY A antigens.
What is type A blood?
A method of duplicating DNA that involves breaking DNA and then each strand of DNA forms another double stranded helix.
What is PCR?
The color a solution turns when mixed with iodine if cornstarch is present.
What is blackish blue?
The center of a fingerprint.
What is a core?
The outer coat of animal that provides protection.
What is guard hair?
Measurements of skulls.
What are craniosacral measurements?
Machines used to identify compounds and substances by creating ions then comparing the mass-to-charge ratio of the particles.
What is mass spec?
Name 2 of the 4 main characteristics of fibers used in their identification.
What is thread count, refraction index, fluorescence, and density?
5% of the population has this fingerprint type.
What is arch?
They identify and study human remains and corpses to identify people from their skeletons and their cause of death.
What is a forensic anthropologist?
Name at least 2 places where DNA could be found at a crime scene.
What is saliva, hair, blood, bodily fluids, or skin cells?
How DNA fingerprints are made.
What is gel electrophoresis?