Crime Scene Analysis
The three most basic types of crime scene recording methods
What are photos, sketches, and notes?
The drug classifications
What are narcotics, hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants?
Luminol test
What is the test for blood that has been cleaned up?
The importance of cortex in the hair shaft
What is the shape and color of hair?
Striations
What are marks made from the bullet of a gun?
The chain of custody document
What is the document that identifies who has handled the evidence?
The Controlled Substance Act
What is legal usage and potential for abuse ratings?
Generally, bloodstain diameter _________ as height increases.
What is increases?
The part of the hair shaft that contains scales
What is cuticle?
Ballistics
What is the study of bullets and their spent cartridge casings?
The agency that maintains the largest crime laboratory in the world
The Father of Forensics
Who is Mathieu Orfila?
The chemical that the Kastle-Meyer test use to test for the presence of blood
What is Phenolphthalein?
3 components of fire triangle
What is fuel, oxygen, and heat?
NIBIN
What is the database where images of fired bullets can be searched?
Established the first crime lab
Who is Dr. Edmond Locard?
Forensic odontology refers to the study of
DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
Point of origin
What is where the fire started?
Lands are the raised portion and groves are the indented portion
What is the difference between lands and grooves?
This unit has the responsibility for the examination of body fluids and organs for the presence of drugs and poisons
What is toxicology?
Four categories of manners of death
What is homicide, suicide, accidental, and natural cause?
The way that CODIS helps forensic scientist in crime
What is matching potential DNA?
3 types of heat transfer
What is convection,radiation, and conduction?
Lead, barium, and antimony
What are the elements that are present in gunshot residue?