Toxicology
What is DDT?
A pesticide that tends to accumulate in increasing levels when advancing through tropic levels of a ecosystem?
What type of insect is first found on a dead body?
Blowfly
Which Rh factor is the most common?
Rh+
What is the most common type of fingerprint pattern?
Loops
Shotgun pellets can be individualized to a single weapon. True or False?
False
What percent of homicides are by poison?
Less than 1%
What is PMI?
Post-Mortem Interval
What velocity would create blood droplets of less than 1 mm in size?
High velocity
What does the acronym AFIS represent?
Automated Fingerprint Identification System
What is GSR?
Gun Shot Residue
What drug is associated with body builders trying to enhance their bodies?
Anabolic Steroids
What is Livor Mortis?
The pooling of blood in the tissues after death, resulting in a reddish color to the skin.
With height increase blood drops usually get smaller in diameter?
False
What print involves a ridge impression left on a soft material such as wax, putty, or soap?
Plastic Print
What types of barrel does a shotgun have?
Smooth
What poison is associated with the "Mad Hatter's Disease"?
Mercury
What insects prefer drier conditions of flesh and feed off of drier tissues and hair?
Mites and Beetles
Smaller drops of blood that originated from a larger drop of blood are known as?
Satellites
What are latent Fingerprints?
Hidden
The raised portion between the grooves in a rifled bore are called?
Lands
What type of drug are barbiturates?
Depressant
Why do muscles get stiff after death?
The muscles run out of ATP
Blood spatter manipulation is not a problem in forensic investigations?
True or False?
True
Points on a fingerprint where ridge characteristics change are called?
Minutiae
What is the diameter of the bore of a rifled firearm called?
Caliber