Forensic science involves comparing evidence from an _____ sample to a _____ sample
What is unknown sample to known sample?
The 3 specific classes for all fingerprints
What is arch, loop, and whorl?
This is what DNA stands for
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The act of falsely making, altering, or imitating (as a document or signature) that is not yours
What is forgery?
A dispersion of blood spots of varying size, created by an external force
What is blood spatter?
This is drawn when a body needs to be removed from a crime scene
What is a body outline?
Most fingerprints are invisible to the naked eye but can be made visible by the use of this substance
What is powder?
What is the hair root/follicle?
The process of comparing an unknown writing sample with a sample from a known writer and determining whether the two samples belong to the same person
What is handwriting analysis?
A type of blood spatter that is formed by an object directly striking a source of exposed blood
What is impact spatter?
Evidence that is found at the place where crime did not take place
What is secondary evidence?
Fingerprint evidence is good, but humans aren’t perfect, so it can be s_________
What is subjective?
The term used to refer to the shape of DNA
What is double helix?
Other than their hands, an individual's handwriting can be recognized when writing with these two other body parts
What is mouth and feet (between toes)?
A type of blood spatter that is formed from blood leaving an object due to its motion
What is castoff spatter?
The path which is used by the offender to come to the scene of crime
What is the line of approach?
These two fluids are left behind on the surfaces of the things we touch
What is sweat and oil?
In a genetic code, this letter always pairs with C
What is G?
This sentence is used to analyze handwriting because it includes every letter in the alphabet
What is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?
A bloodstain that looks like this is known as what?
What is transfer stain?
Forensic scientists want to find the truth, so their investigations should be o________
What is objective?
A fingerprint that looks like this is known as what?
What is a double loop whorl?
This is a specific pattern of DNA attributes that is obtained in a laboratory and can be used to identify a specific individual
What is a DNA profile?
An individual cannot exactly reproduce their own handwriting because of this principle
What is variation?
Draw what a bloodstain traveling from left to right will look like up here on the whiteboard
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