The CSI Effect
Gil Grissom leads a gun toting team of forensic analysts in this TV program (2000)
What is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?
"Tout contact laisse une trace" or "Every contact leaves a trace" was posited by this French forensic scientist
Who is Edmond Locard?
This technology isolates DNA in the presence of chaotropic salts
What is DNA IQ?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
AAFS
What is the American Academy of Forensic Sciences?
This TV program follows a blood spatter analyst who moonlights as a gruesome vigilante (2006)
What is Dexter?
Frances Glessnor Lee constructed these as a tool to recreate crime scenes. She was America's first female police captain and is widely considered the "Mother of forensic science" for her work.
What are dollhouses or dioramas?
This technology can help a DNA analyst to understand how degraded a sample is and whether it contains inhibitors
What is Globalfiler Trio?
This British chemist and X-ray crystallographer is responsible for taking the first "high-definition photograph" of DNA's double helix structure
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
LIMS
What is Laboratory Information Management System?
In this TV program, Abby is the forensic "jack of all trades" with a borderline dependence on caffeinated soft drinks (2003)
What is NCIS?
In 1892, Sir Francis Galton published a groundbreaking book related to this area of forensic science
What is Fingerprinting?
This "contraption" uses Sanger sequencing to analyze fragments of DNA
What is the 3500 Series Genetic Analyzer?
DAILY DOUBLE
This British Geneticist is known for pioneering the area of "genetic fingerprinting" which has now evolved into what we know as "DNA profiling"
Who is Sir Alec Jeffreys?
ISO
What is the International Organization for Standardization?
This Netflix series "loosely" follows the story of two FBI agents as they pioneer a new realm of criminal investigation, now called "Criminal Profiling" (2017)
What is Mindhunter?
We appreciate Dr. Eduard Piotrowski's work in this area of forensic science. The cleaning crew probably did not!
What is Blood Spatter Analysis?
This piece of equipment utilizes a Tungsten-Halogen lamp to excite fluorescent dyes and captures this fluorescence with a CCD camera
What is the 7500 Real-time PCR System or ABI Prism?
In the late 1940's, this Austrian chemist established a "rule" that states:
Within DNA, Cytosine is found in equal quantities to Guanine. As is Adenine to Thymine.
This "rule" is named after the chemist himself
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
ABC
What is the American Board of Criminalists?
DAILY DOUBLE
This trailblazing forensic TV program was originally titled "Medical Detectives" before being rebranded to its more popular name (1996)
What is Forensic Files?
Clea Koff, founder of the Missing Persons Identification Resource Center and regarded for her work with the Rwandan Criminal tribunal, is considered a pioneer in this area of forensic science
What is Forensic Anthropology
This piece of technology aids in the tracking of samples throughout the forensic laboratory. Beware, it has been known to make analysts turn animalistic!
What is BEAST?
In 1869, this Swiss biochemist is credited with discovering and isolating nucleic acid, originally calling it "Nuclein"
Who is Friedrich Miescher?
NIST
What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology?