DNA Fingerprints
Pattern of DNA fragments obtained by examining a person’s unique sequence of DNA base pairs
What is a DNA fingerprint?
The term that refers to the clumping of red blood cells
What is agglutination?
Drugs with no current accepted medical use in the US
What is Illegal/Schedule I or II
The cooling of body temperature after death
What is algor mortis?
Who is known as the Father of Forensic Anthropology?
Who is Thomas Dwight
Introns are also referred to as this
Junk DNA/noncoding DNA
Which test for blood spatter produces light when possible blood is present?
What is luminol test?
Drugs whose sale, possession, and use are restricted in the US
What is controlled (substance)?
The discoloration of a dead body caused by blood cells leaking hemoglobin (be specific)
What is lividity?
The easiest way to determine the gender of a skeleton is to examine this
What is the pelvis?
(pelvic bones)
A method used to make millions of copies of a specific segment of DNA from a very small amount of DNA
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Small secondary droplets around the main blood spatter drop are called:
What are satellite droplets?
Type of testing used to narrow down the identity of a toxin
What is presumptive testing?
The study of insects as they pertain to crime scene investigation: forensic __________.
entomology
the name of the computer program that enables forensic anthropologists to perfonsrm metric analyses on skeletal remains
What is FORDISC
Mitochondrial DNA is different from nuclear DNA because:
It is circular in shape/inherited only from the mother
Which test uses antibodies that react to human blood to tell if mammal blood is from a human?
What is the ELISA test?
Who is known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology?
Mattieu Orfila
If someone has been shot, they may die from loss of blood, or this . . .
What is exsanguination?
the places where pieces of a baby's skull are matched but not yet ossified.
what are sutures?
The US database for DNA profiles is called this
What is CODIS?
The study of blood applied to crime
Forensic _____________
What is serology?
Ricin is a bioterrorism agent derived from what plant?
What is the castor bean?
To take a corpse’s temperature, forensic investigators insert a thermometer into this
What is the corpse's stomach?
the organization known as JPAC was founded to do this
What is to find, identify, and return the bodies of soldiers to their families?