Hair and Fiber
This is where DNA can be found in a hair strand.
What is the hair follicle
DNA is found in this part of blood
What are white blood cells?
Often referred to as its 3 letter acronym, this is the genetic material of all living things. (Give the full name)
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
Toxicology is the study of the effects of these 3 types of substances.
What are drugs, poisons, and toxins?
This insect is typically the first to arrive at a dead body
What is a blowfly
This process is when evidence is transferred from a source to a person, and then to another person.
What is secondary transfer?
Blood typing is considered to be this type of evidence.
What is class evidence?
This type of DNA is only inherited from the mother.
What is mitochondrial DNA?
This factor that affects toxicity is a measure of how much was taken in or absorbed.
What is dosage (dose)?
This moment is known as the arrival of the first insects on a dead body.
What is colonization?
This measurement of width is used to distinguish between human hair and animal hair?
What is the medullary index?
This component of blood is crucial for blood clotting
What are platelets?
This process is used to "amplify DNA" by replicating it to make larger samples to work with.
What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
This federal law classifies drugs into five schedules.
What is the Controlled Substances Act of 1970?
What are the three larval stages of a blowfly called?
What are instars?
Along with medulla pattern and cuticle scale type, this third characteristic of hair can help narrow down a suspect list with its focus on color
What is pigmentation?
Along with direction of impact, this also determines the shape of a blood droplet.
What is the angle of impact?
The FBI uses 13 of these variable regions of DNA to identify individuals
What are short tandem repeats (STRs)?
Toxicological evidence is dried before storage to prevent this.
What is mold and contamination?
This period of time is the duration between the time of death and the discovery of the body
Post-mortem interval (PMI)
This type of microscope allows for side-by-side analysis of two hair samples
What is a comparison microscope?
Along with the type of injury, this piece of evidence can be revealed by the size of blood spatter.
what is the type of weapon used?
mtDNA is considered class evidence because it is shared among this type of familial relative.
What is maternal?
This type of test provides a preliminary result but not a definite identification
What is a presumptive test?
This period of time is how long it takes for an insect to reach a certain temperature needed to reach stages in its development
What is Accumulated Degree Hours (ADH)