This updated ruling stated that as long as it followed the scientific method, novel forensic evidence was admissible.
What is the Daubert Ruling?
100
This is the function of DNA.
What is storing genetic information.
100
These are the 3 major classes of fingerprints.
What are loops, arches, and whorls?
100
This is a quick test that compares results of a test battery to a database of outcomes.
What is a spot test?
100
This class of drugs increase awareness and speed metabolism.
What are stimulants?
200
This document guarantees rights and protections for accused US citizens.
What is the Constitution?
200
These two ingredients must be added to DNA samples to enable PCR reactions.
What are primers and free nucleotide mix?
200
These are the small details that individualize a fingerprint.
What are minutiae?
200
This suture is located along the top of the skull, and is commonly used to age a skeleton.
What is the sagital sucture?
200
This is the phenotype represented by the genotype AO +-
What is A+?
300
It is imperative that this documentation is maintained to preserve the integrity of evidence.
What is a chain of custody?
300
This is the main limitation on DNA evidence.
What is the completeness of the CODIS database?
300
This is the core of the hair, and is much more prominent in animals.
What is the medulla?
300
This software technology is still in its infancy, but may one day allow for automated monitoring of cameras.
What is facial recognition?
300
This is the most likely source of blood spatter that is a very fine mist.
What is a high velocity impact?
400
This sketching model is implemented in situations in which the scene is located outside with a singular fixed point of reference.
What is the compass point model?
400
This new technology allows forensic investigators to examine small sample of DNA.
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction?
400
This is the most common cuticle scale pattern exhibited by humans.
What is an imbricate scale pattern?
400
These are the 3 post-mortem processes we discussed in class.
What are livor mortis, algor mortis and rigor mortis?
400
This is why it is useful to calculate the angle of impact for a blood droplet.
What is to find the origin of the blood droplet?
500
This search strategy is optimal when a small team is searching for an object with a known point of origin.
What is a spiral search?
500
A forensic investigator uses a restriction enzyme that cuts the target DNA sequence into shorter than average restriction fragments. This is how the researcher can ensure that their electrophoresis results are readable.
What is increasing the agarose gel concentration?
500
This area of a hair provides information like the circumstances in which the hair was lost and DNA.
What is the root?
500
This is the quantifiable value associated with elution patterns.
What is an Rf value?
500
This refers to any substance that has legal restrictions as to its possession or use.