Biology - DNA
DNA stands for
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Three categories of forensic photography
What is overall, midrange, closeup?
This principle describes transfer of materials between two items in contact
What is Loccard's exchange principle?
This type of 3D casting is used in footwear evidence and will undergo an exothermic reaction when setting
What is dental stone?
This small transportable device tests for blood alcohol levels
What is a breathalyzer?
This enzyme unwinds DNA
What is Helicase?
This type of photograph is taken of something as is. (in original condition)
What is in situ?
This type of light degrades DNA evidence
What is UV light?
This lighting technique is used to photograph 3D shoe mark impressions
What is oblique lighting?
This is a highly toxic substance commonly found in fire. The byproduct of incomplete combustion.
What is carbon monoxide?
This DNA is only inherited through one parent
What is mDNA?
These three things affect depth of field
Subject to camera distance, aperture, focal length
This is the percentage of trace evidence lost within the first 8 hours
What is 90%?
Apparatus used to lift 2D dust footwear impressions
What is an electrostatic lifting device?
The organ that is most commonly tested for drugs and toxins during a forensic examination
What is the liver?
This was the first criminal convicted based on DNA evidence
This law describes how light falls off as distance from camera increases
What is inverse square law?
This ALS is used to detect blood and GSR?
What is IR light?
Measurement made from center of one wheel or impression to opposite wheel or impression
What is track width?
Location in the body where blood is obtained for toxicological analysis
What is the femoral vein?
This presumptive blood test is primate specific
What is HexagonOBTI or BlueStar?
What is rear curtain sync?
The three layers of forensic significance in the hair shaft
What is cuticle, cortex, and medulla?
What is SICAR?
The element is detected by the Marsh test
What is arsenic?