Hair 1
The protein that hair is made of is this.
What is Keratin
When this is attached, the hair is considered individual evidence.
What is the follicle?
The outermost layer of hair is called this.
What is the cuticle?
The innermost layer of hair is called this.
What is the medulla?
What is the cortex?
What are blonde, brown, black, red, and white?
The protein that gives hair its characteristic color is called this.
What is melanin?
Hair can be considered as many types of evidence. Name four.
What are individual, circumstantial (or indirect), biological, and trace evidence?
If the cuticle pattern of hair is imbricate, one can be sure that the hair is this.
What is of human origin?
These are the three cuticle types found in hair.
What are imbricate, spinous, and coronal?
This is the longest stage in which hair is found.
What is the anagen phase?
This is the stage of hair when it is changing in color.
What is catagenic?
Two different hair strands can be viewed simultaneously in this type of microscope.
What is a comparison microscope?
This is the resting stage of hair.
What is the telogen stage?
This type of body hair usually contain a double medulla.
What is beard or mustache hair?
Keratin, the protein that hair is made of is this color.
What is white?
The six types of hair that can be found throughout the body are these.
What are the head, the body, eyebrows and eyelashes, beards and mustaches, pubic hair, and underarm hair?
This is the "middle stage" of hair, usually lasting only 10 to 20 days, in which hair growth ends.
What is catagen?
Neutron Activation Analysis, or NAA, is used mainly for this purpose.
What is to find out what kinds of substances are contained in hair (or other materials)?
The highest number of hair follicles that a person will ever have is when they are first born, and it is on average, this number.
What is about five million hairs?
What is the medullary index and what information can it give about hair?
Answers will vary.
The scales of the hair cuticle always point in this direction.
What is away from the scalp?
In centimeters, hair that has been growing for a whole year will be about this much longer than when it began.
What is around 15.6 centimeters?
The part of the hair that is closer to the scalp can be described using this word, while the end of the hair farthest from the scalp can be described using this word. (The words will have to be in the correct order.)
What are proximal and distal?
Because inconsistencies occur in each body region, this number of hairs is usually collected from the person's head.
What is 50?