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Biometrics

100

What does the prefix bio mean?

Life

200

What does the suffix metrics mean?

Measurement

300

Name a common way that biometrics are being used in some industries today.

Hand scanner, eye scanners, vein geometry, facial recognition software

400

What are the two traits that biometrics uses to obtain information?

Physical and behavioral traits

500

Name two of the three components that all biometrics must have to function.

Sensor, computer, software

Bones

100

Of what descent are Mongoloid bones. 

Asian descent.

200

Name a bone that you can use to measure height.

Any long bone.  Arms, legs.

300

What is the difference between the male temporal bone and the female temporal bone?

Males temporal bone extends down past the ear.

400

Name four things that we can tell about an individual based on their bones?

Age, gender, height, race

500

Name the 5 parts of your vertebral column, starting from the top to the bottom.

cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx)

DNA

100

What does the nitrogen containing base adenine pair up with?

Thymine

200

What are the special enzymes that cut DNA called?

restriction enzymes

300

What are the three parts of a DNA nucleotide?

Sugar-deoxyribose

Phosphate group

Nitrogen containing base

400

ATCCGGTCAGTAACCGGATA

When we cut using the restriction enzyme Haelll. How many pieces of DNA segments do we have?

3

500

ATCCGGTCAGTAACCGGATA 

How many base pairs do we have in the first cut segment of DNA and how many pieces of DNA do we have in the last cut segment of DNA. 

First 4

Last-5

More Bones

100

Name a bone on your appendicular skeleton.

Arms, legs, shoulder and pelvic girdle

200

How many thoracic vertebrae do you have?

12

300

What are the first and second cervical vertebrae called.  In order of 1st to 2nd.

Atlas, axis

400

Name the two bones in your lower leg and the two bones in your lower arm.

leg-tibia, fibula

arm-radius, ulna

500

Name 5 bones you would find in your face and explain where they are.

Fontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, maxilla, mandible, zygomatic process.

Miscellaneous

100

True or False.  The smallest pieces of DNA move the fastest and the farthest away in a gel electrophoresis tray.

True

200

What region of your body is the axillary region?

Armpit

300

What is another name for you cheekbone?

Zygomatic process

400

What health career professional handles human remains, cleans skeletal remains and inspects decomposed remains for signs of trauma. 

Forensic Anthropologist

500

Name a behavioral trait used in biometrics?

Voice, handwriting, typing rhythm, gait analysis