Fingerprints
This type of fingerprint pattern resembles a series of circles
What is a whorl?
DNA stands for this.
Forensic entomologists study this category of animals to help estimate the time of death.
What are insects?
This former football player was famously acquitted of murder in 1995 because the glove did not fit him.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
This basic unit of heredity is found in DNA and determines traits
What is a gene?
Fingerprints that are not visible to the naked eye are called this.
What are latent fingerprints?
What are nucleotides
This animal is often associated with the later stages of decomposition.
What are dermestid beetles?
Anthony Hopkins portrayed this fictional forensic psychiatrist cannibalist serial killer in ''the Silence of the Lambs''.
Who is Hannibal Lecter?
This technique separates DNA fragments by size using an electric field
What is gel electrophoresis?
These are the small details in a fingerprint that make it unique
What are minutiae?
DNA is found in this part of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
These insects are usually the first to arrive at a decomposing body.
What are blowflies?
This notorious serial killer was known as the ''Killer Clown'' and was caught after a teenage boy named Robert Piest went missing, leading to a police investigation that uncovered numerous bodies buried under his house.
Who is John Wayne Gacy?
This principle states that ''every contact leaves a trace'' crucial to crime scene investigation.
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
This is the most common type of fingerprint pattern
What is a loop?
This process copies smaller amounts of DNA to create a larger sample.
What is PCR?
This term describes the developmental stages of an insect, such as egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
What is metamorphosis?
This killer was caught after being pulled over for a routine traffic stop where the officer found suspicious items such as IDs and credit cards in his car that linked him to a series of murders including the murder of two sorority girls.
Who is Ted Bundy?
This blood spatter pattern is created when blood is flung from a weapon or other object.
What is a cast-off spatter?
This term refers to a full set of fingerprints taken from an individual.
What is a ten-print card
This system is a national database of DNA profiles.
What is CODIS?
This anthropologist founded the Body Farm.
Who is William Bass?
This man was convicted for the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981, targeting African American children and young adults. He was caught after he was apprehended by police staking ut a bridge leading to the discovery of fibers in a body that matched those in his house and car.
Who is Wayne Williams?
This is the term for the stiffening of muscles after death.
What is rigor mortis?