The Traces We Leave Behind
The outermost layer of hair.
What is the cuticle?
Because DNA is this, it will RUN TO THE RED, or positive, end of a gel electrophoresis box.
What is negatively charged.
This system eliminates wastes from the body and regulates water balance of the blood.
What is the urinary system?
A group of tissues.
What is an organ?
These include natural, homicide and accidental.
What is manner of death?
A beginner archer is practicing his aim and hits the same spot on the very outer edge of the target 5 times in a row. He never got close to the bulleye but least he has this skill.
What is precision?
This DNA building block is made up of a 5-carbon sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base.
What is a nucleotiude?
The brain and spinal cord are part of this division of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
This tissue type carries messages throughout the body to direct its activities, transmits signals.
What is nervous?
A test that measures physiological responses to make conclusions about a person's honesty.
What is a polygraph test?
Tiny characteristics used to differentiate one fingerprint from another.
What are minutiae?
Adenine will always bind to thymine according to this scientist's rules.
Who is Chargoff?
This body system secretes hormones that regulate processes such as growth, reproduction , and metabolism by body cells.
What is the endocrine system?
This tissue type Covers internal and external body structures and forms glands.
What is epithelial?
In this search method, investigators begin at one end of an area and move in a straight line to the other end.
What is the Line or Strip method.
What is diameter.
A technique used to separate DNA fragments based upon size.
What is electrophoresis?
The lobe of the brain responsible for processing language and storing information in the long-term memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
This heart valve controls the flow of blood between thethe right atria and ventricle.
What is tricuspid?
A post-mordem measure of how and where blood has pooled in the body.
What is livor mortis?
As opposed to a presumptive test, this is a specific test that can determine the exact identity and composition of a substance.
What is a confirmatory test?
A technique used to make thousands of copies of a section of DNA.
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)?
This heart chamber pumps blood out of the heart, through the pulmonary arteries and into the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
If lividity is fixed and rigor mortis established throughout body, this is the minimum time since death.
What is 8 to 10 hours?
This type of enzyme is able to cut DNA at specific nucleotide sequences.
What are restriction enzymes?