Fingerprints
The three types of fingerprints
What are a whorl, loop, and arch?
A specialist who does facial reconstruction
What is a forensic anthropologist?
ballistics
What are guns and ammunition?
Application of dental knowledge in examining crime scenes
What is odontology?
Latin for "After Death"
What is post mortem?
The lines that make up the fingerprint
What are ridges?
Works with plants as applied to crime scenes.
What is a forensic botanist?
This building block of life that is found in cells
What is DNA?
The internal and external examination of a dead body
What is an autopsy?
DNA is found in these
What are all cells in plants or animals?
Where the ridges separate into two lines
What is bifurcation?
Applies knowledge of insects such as those found in decomposing bodies in a crime scene
What is a forensic entomologist?
Leave prints as evidence
What are fingerprints, footprints, tire prints
The study of crime and criminals
What is criminology?
Identical twins have the same DNA
What is "True"?
When the ridges form a triangle
What is a fingerprint delta?
An elected official, often a medical examiner (ME), who investigates deaths considered to be unnatural
What is a Coroner?
An example of class evidence
What is a shoe print or blood type?
Something copied, made to look real, in order to deceive or defraud
What is counterfeit?
The first director of the FBI
Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
Example(s) of individual evidence
What are fingerprints or DNA?
Tests bodily fluids and tissues in an autopsy looking for the presence of chemicals
What is a forensic toxicologist?
Gory evidence that helps forensic specialists reconstruct what happened at a crime scene
Blood spatter
Anything used, left, removed, altered, or contaminated during the commission of a crime or other event under investigation
What is evidence?
Media must be allowed into a crime scene
What is "False"?