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Pretty in Print
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Collecting Fingerprints
Grabag
100
A center of a loop or whorl
What is CORE
100
What are the 3 types of fingerprints?
What is... Arches Loops Whorls
100

In order to do a ridge count, you need these two things on the print.

What is a delta and a core.

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

Fingerprints can be these types of evidence.

What is trace evidence, class evidence and individual evidence.

200
A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle
What is DELTA
200

This is the reason fingerprints are left on sufgaces

What is dirt and oil on the finger is left on the object?

200

The FBI uses the IAFIS database for fingerprints.  This is why it is so important.

What is it allows forensic scientists to access  fingerprint databases taken nationally and quickly compare them to the print in question.

200
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

Small amounts of material or evidence are left when two people come into contact.  This term describes this principle.

What is the Loccard Principle?

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

Within two percentage points, what percentage of the population has arch fingerprints.

What is 5%.

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

Hair is so tough due to this protein

What is Keratin? 

400
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
400
What type of fingerprint does the highest percentage (65%) of the population have?
What is loops.
400

This is the layer of skin in which the fingerprint is generated 

What is the dermis.

400
a three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material such as clay, soap, or putty
What is plastic fingerprint.
400

Animal hair frequently has this but human hair doesn't

What is a medulla

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

What is LOOP.

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This is the technique you use if the fingerprints are left on a porous substance such as paper

What is chemical fingerprinting.

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Dusting with magnetic powder is the best way to remove this type of fingerprint

What is a latent fingerprint.

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Name 4 of the 7 "S"s you must do when you arrive at the crime scene.

What is secure the scene, seperating witnesses,  see the scene, scan the scene, sketch the scene, Searching for evidence, securing evidence