Observation/Evidence
Forensic Science is
What is the application of science to law?
Man made fibers, that are stronger than natural fibers.
What are synthetic fibers?
The most common fingerprint pattern.
What is a loop?
Unlike DNA, blood type only provides this type of evidence.
What is class evidence?
Percentage of fiber evidence that may be lost withing the first 24 hours.
What is 95%?
A person who has seen something and can report that information
What is an eyewitness?
The central core of a hair.
What is the medulla?
Fingerprint examiners always look for cores and ____ to determine the fingerprint type.
What is deltas?
The genotype of type O blood.
What is ii?
A folded piece of paper used to hold trace evidence.
What is a bindle?
The first of the 7S's
What is securing the crime scene?
This may be present if a hair is forcibly removed from a victim.
What is a follicular tag?
What is Arch?
Proteins found on the surface of blood cells, that help to determine blood type.
What is an antigen?
A group that works to overturn wrongful convictions using DNA evidence.
What is the Innocence Project?
First hand observations such as eyewitness reports, video, and confessions
What is direct evidence?
What is secondary transfer?
Small differences in fingerprint patterns that differ among individuals.
What is minutiae?
Blood type that will not have A or B antibodies in the plasma.
What is type AB blood?
Not the place of a crime, but somewhere that may have evidence relating to that crime.
What is a secondary crime scene?
A search pattern in which an area is sectioned off into smaller squares.
What is quadrant/zone?
The 3 main sources of natural fiber.
What are plant, animals, and minerals?
The layer of skin that fingerprints originate (form) from
Papillary Layer of the Dermis
The clumping of blood due to the antigen-antibody response.
What is agglutination?
The type of scales that are found on human hair.
What is imbricate?