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Vocabulary Terms
Characteristics of Fingerprints
Fingerprinting Technology
Collecting Fingerprints
Fingerprint Development
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A center of a loop or whorl
What is CORE
100
What are the 3 types of fingerprints?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100

What pattern has at least 2 deltas and a core?

Whorl

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a hidden fingerprint made visible through the use of powders or other techniques
What is latent fingerprint.
100

What does iodine react with to show a print?

carbohydrates

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A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200
What characteristics are fingerprints named for?
What is General visual appearance and patterns.
200

35% of all fingerprints are this pattern

Whorl

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a visible fingerprint that happens when fingers with blood, ink, or some other substance on them touch a surface and transfer the pattern of their fingerprint to the surface
What is patent fingerprint.
200

What does silver nitrite react with to form a print?

Salts

300
A combination of details in the shapes and position of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called a ridge
What is MINUTIAE
300
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side
What is ARCH.
300

When do fingerprints form?

10th week of gestation

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What are the 3 kinds of fingerprints found by investigators?
What is patent, plastic, and latent.
300

What does ninhydrin react with to form a print?

Proteins (amino acids)

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The recognizable pattern of the ridges found in the end joints of the fingers that form lines on the surface of objects in a fingerprint
What is RIDGE PATTERN
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What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
400
What Chapter is this?
What is 6.
400
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is plastic fingerprint.
400

What determines which powder should be used on a print?

Background color, texture

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A form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints
What is TEN CARD
500
A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is LOOP.
500

What is the difference between a radial loop and an ulnar loop?

radial enters towards the little finger, ulnar enters towards the thumb

500
What are the two ways a latent finger print can be lifted?
What is... 1. Dusting with powders (carbon, magnetic, metallic) 2. Dripping with reactive chemicals
500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!! 

Name 10 minutae or ridge marks.

delta, core, bifurcation(fork), island(eye), dot, lake, bridge, crossover, ending ridge, hook, enclosure