Human vs Animal
Fun Hair Facts
Hair analysis
Fabulous Fibers
Etc.
100
Two structures in hair used to determine species identification:

What are the cuticle and the medulla?

100
The pigment granules that impart hair with color are found in this layer.
What is the cortex?
100

Microscopic hair comparisons must be regarded by police and courts as ___________ type of evidence.

What is presumptive?

What is class?

What is circumstantial?

100
The most prevalent, or most common by far of the plant fibers.
What is cotton?
100

Protein found in hair.

What is keratin?

200

Types of cuticles usually seen in animals rather than humans.

What is spinous and coronal?

200
The central canal running through many hairs is called this.
What is the medulla?
200

The tissue of hair necessary for Nuclear DNA analysis.

What is follicular tissue?

What is the follicle?

200

Which doesn't belong: cotton, silk, polyester, wool.

What is polyester?

200
The three layers of the hair shaft.
What are the Cuticle, cortex, and medulla?
300

Type of cuticle seen in humans rather than animals.

What is imbricate?

300
The part of a hair that contains its scales.
What is the cuticle?
300

The tissue needed for Mitochondrial DNA analysis?

What is the hair shaft?

300

Humans learned how to make fibers from watching these animals:

What is silk worms and spiders?

300

A medullary index found to be 0.22 would likely be what type of hair?

What is human hair?

400
Animal hair can be best distinguished from human hair by examining these 2 hair layers.
What are the medulla and the cuticle?
400
The 3 stages of hair growth.
What are anagenic, telogenic, and catagenic?
400

The only reliable test determining whether a hair sample originated from a male or a female.

What is DNA analysis?

400

Natural fibers can come from:

What is plants, animals, or minerals?
400

The average length of human hair growth per month.

What is 1 cm?

500
The medullary index for most other animals is greater than this decimal.
What is 0.5?
500

Medullae may be classified as interrupted or absent, fragmented, doubled, or:

What is continuous?

500

A cast of a hair surface can be made using nail polish in order to see the:

What is cuticle pattern?

What is scale pattern?

500

Means a fiber was man-made?

What is synthetic?

500

The 2 measurements that needed to determine medullary index.

What are the diameter of the hair and the medulla?

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