Fingerprints
Scientific Method
The Basics
The Crime Scene
Hair
100
The least common type and the simplest of fingerprint patterns.
What is arches?
100
The first step of the scientific method.
What is observation?
100
Anything that tends to establish or disprove a fact.
What is evidence?
100
A person who determines the nature of a crime.
Who is the first officer on the scene?
100
This principle states that there is always a cross transfer of evidence between suspect and victim or locale.
What is the Locard Exchange Principle?
200
These types can be subdivided into four groups, they have at least two deltas and a core.
What is whorls?
200
A type of reasoning that involves the second step of the scientific method.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
The science that deals with the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles, most often firearms and bullets.
What is ballistics?
200
A person who determines or estimates the time of death.
Who is the medical examiner?
200
Cross-linked proteins that hair is mostly made of.
What is polymers?
300
This fingerprint type has one or more ridges entering from one side, curving, then going out from the same side it entered.
What is a loop?
300
Forming a possible solution to the problem based on observation, experience, and imagination.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The investigation of sudden, unexplained, or violent death.
What is pathology?
300
This person interviews the first responder, victim, or witnesses to learn what happened.
Who is the investigator?
300
The tough, clear outside covering of the hair shaft.
What is the cuticle?
400
True or False. It is possible to change your fingerprints.
What is false?
400
This type of reasoning makes a determination as to the significance of the evidence.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
The study of insects.
What is entomology?
400
Notes, photography, sketches, and video.
What is methods of documentation?
400
A tough protein polymer made up of about 20 different amino acids.
What is keratin?
500
The study of fingerprints.
What is dactylscopy?
500
The last step of the scientific process involving coming up with an opinion that is able to stand up in a court of law.
What is a theory?
500
The use of a lie detector.
What is polygraphy?
500
The place where after evidence is packaged separately, sealed and labeled, is sent to.
What is the forensic lab?
500
A slight waviness, in hair morphology.
What is undulation?
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