Forensic Serology
What is the term used to describe laboratory tests using reactions of blood serum and other body fluids?
What is serology?
How many liters of blood does the average adult have?
What is five liters?
What is the percentage of cells in blood?
What is 45%?
What determines a person's blood type?
What are genes inherited from parents?
What is one blood spatter pattern that indicates the victim was alive when the wound was inflicted?
What is arterial gushes?
Name one type of analysis that a forensic serologist might perform on blood?
What is blood typing?
What percentage of body weight does blood make up?
What is 7-8%?
What is plasma primarily composed of?
What is 90% water?
What are agglutinogens?
What are proteins on the surface of red blood cells that determine blood type?
What can the analysis of blood spatter patterns help determine?
What is the origin, direction, and angle of impact of the blood?
What percentage of the population are considered secretors?
What is 80%?
What is the role of red blood cells?
What is to carry gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Name one type of cell found in blood
What is a red blood cell (RBC)?
What is the blood type of the victim in the provided scenario?
What is A-?
How does the height from which blood falls affect its shape?
What is it forms a near-perfect spherical shape at a 90° angle?
How does blood typing help in a forensic investigation?
What is it provides class evidence and can eliminate suspects?
What do platelets help with?
What is blood clotting?
What are antibodies?
What are dissolved proteins in plasma that help fight infections?
How can blood type help in eliminating suspects?
What is matching blood types can rule out individuals as possible suspects?
Name one factor that can affect the drying time of blood at a crime scene.
What is temperature or humidity?
What is one DNA technique used for identification?
What is DNA profiling?
How many red blood cells are estimated to be in two to three drops of blood?
What is about one billion?
What is the function of hemoglobin?
What is to bind to oxygen and give blood its red color?
What is the forensic value of blood type in a crime scene context?
What is providing class evidence that can lead to suspect elimination?
What are satellite droplets?
What are small secondary droplets formed when blood falls from a height or at high velocity?