Genetic Code
DNA stands for
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
The 4 different blood types.
What are A, B, AB, and O?
The study of firearms and bullets.
What is ballistics?
The illegal and intentional setting of fires.
What is arson?
What is biological?
The cell organelle where DNA is found.
What is the Nucleus?
This chemical can be used to detect blood even after someone has attempted to clean it up.
What is luminol?
A substance that can be found on a victim and the suspect after a gun is fired.
What is gunpowder residue?
The first step of an arson investigation.
What is to determine the point of origin?
What is individual evidence?
The type of evidence that DNA is.
What is individual evidence?
A test used to determine if a substance is blood.
What is a presumptive blood test?
The path of a bullet or projectile.
What is trajectory?
The typical pattern that a fire burns in.
What is a V shaped pattern?
Blood types are considered ___________ evidence.
The test used to analyze DNA fragments.
What is gel electrophoresis?
What is the point of origin?
Unique markings on a casing and a bullet that can be used to identify the firearm from which it was fired.
Striations, breechmarks, and firing pin markings
The most common motive for arson.
What is insurance money?
Indirect evidence that does not prove a fact but gives rise to a logical inference that the fact exists.
What is circumstantial evidence?
The enzymes used to cut DNA into smaller fragments before gel electrophoresis.
What are restriction enzymes?
The tail of a blood drop indicates this.
What is the direction of travel of the blood spatter?
Factors that affect the flight path of a bullet.
What are gravity, air resistance, wind deflection?
Ingredients required for combustion/fire to occur.
What are fuel, oxygen, and heat?
Evidence that can't be used in court.
What is inadmissable?