Biometrics Definitions
What's that microscope?
Types of Firearms
Acronyms
Forensic Palynology
100

A form of biometrics that focuses on identifying humans through handwriting, keystrokes, gait recognition, etc.

What is behavioral biometrics?

100

This microscope contains two compounds microscopes in one unit.

What is a comparison microscope?

100

This double-action type of handgun has a removable magazine in the grip of the forearm.

What is a semiautomatic pistol?

100

NIBIN

What is the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network?

100

This is a single-celled male gametophyte of a seed-bearing plant.

What is a pollen grain?

200

A form of biometrics that focuses on identifying humans through their unique physiological traits such as fingerprints, hands, iris, retina, and facial scans.

What are physiological biometrics?

200

This microscope provides a large working distance for scanning bulky items for trace evidence.

What is the stereomicroscope?

200

This type of long gun has a smooth barrel.

What is a shotgun?

200

LDA

What is linear discriminant analysis?

200

These consist of both male and female gametes of plants such as algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns.

What are spores?

300

A technique that creates matrices of human faces and uses complex mathematical equations to generate templates for individual features that are digitally stored.

What are eigenfaces?

300

This microscope is especially useful for birefringent materials.

What is the polarizing light microscope?

300

This type of long gun fires a single projectile and has a barrel with lands and grooves.

What is a rifle?

300

IPS

What is the Interstate Photo System?

300

These types of plants produce pollen that is dispersed by the wind.

What is an anemophilous plant?

400

The process of capturing a person's biometric data and storing it in a database for later use.

What is enrollment?

400

This microscope plots an absorption spectrum of the item under examination.

What is a microspectrophotometer?

400

This type of handgun contains a cylinder that swings out to the side of the weapon to be loaded.

What is a swing-out revolver?

400

RISC

What is the Repository of Special Concern?

400

This is a characteristic of pollen grains that describes the pattern of the surface.

What is the surface sculpturing?

500

A technique used in the reconstruction and analysis of a human face through which thousands of stored images of faces are used and placed over the face in question.

What is principal component analysis (PCA)?

500

This microscope provides the highest resolution and greatest depth of focus.

What is a scanning electron microscope?

500

This type of handgun contains a gate at the back of the gun that allows one chamber to be loaded at a time.

What is a solid-frame revolver?

500
SICAR

What is Shoeprint Image Capture and Retrieval?

500

This is the real name of Baby Doe.

Who is Bella Bond?