Fingerprinting
DNA Analysis
Toxicology
Criminal cases
Miscellaneous
100
This is the most common fingerprint pattern
What is a loop?
100
These are the four bases that make up DNA (can just be the letters)
What is ATGC?
100
This is a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed
What is poison?
100
A major trial involving a former football star and the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, including mishandled forensic evidence.
What is the OJ Simpson Trial?
100
This part of the body decomposes last after death
What are bones or teeth?
200
This is the most common type of the whorl fingerprint
What is a plain whorl?
200
This is the full name of DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
This is the most commonly analyzed biological sample used by forensic toxicologists.
What is blood?
200
A case of two brothers committing the murder of their parent's death in Beverly Hills involving the study of ballistics.
What is the Menendez brother's case?
200
This is the most used weapon in criminalistics
What is a firearm?
300
a fingerprint that is not apparent to the eye but can be made sufficiently visible, as by dusting or fuming, for use in identification
What is a latent fingerprint?
300
This is a forensic science technique used to separate and analyze DNA fragments to link evidence to suspects
What is gel electrophoresis?
300
These are a kind of toxin made by living organisms
What are organic toxins?
300
This case established the definition of death and the legality of organ donation from a living infant in the NIH and was solved through DNA evidence.
What is the Baby Theresa case?
300
This organ decomposes first after death
What is the brain?
400
These are unique, measurable features used for identification and matching
What are minutiae?
400
Pigment that produces yellow and red hues hair, eyes, and skin tones
What is pheomelanin?
400
These are regulated substances (by govt) because of their potential for abuse
What are controlled substances?
400
This man was involved in the Atlanta Child Murders of the early 1980s and fiber analysis was used for conviction.
Who is Wayne Williams?
400
These types of blood drops fall due to gravity alone.
What are passive drops?
500
A point where a single ridge line divides into two or more ridges.
What is a bifurcation?
500
This is a forensic DNA analysis technique that uses repetitive DNA sequences with varying lengths in different people to create unique DNA profiles for individuals,
What is DNA STR (Short Tandem Repeats) Typing?
500
A test for the presence of specific substances in a biological sample through the binding of antibodies and antigens
What is an immunoassay?
500
A case solved solely through forensic DNA analysis through bone fragments and was the first episode of the Forensic Files series
What is the dissapearance of Helle Crafts?
500
This individual is known as the father/founder of forensic science
Who is Edmund Locard?