Historical Forensic
Science
Science
The application of science to law
What is forensic science?
The best known federal crime lab, deals with most large scale crimes like terrorism
The analysis technique that involves the use of a microscope to look at very small things
What is microscopy?
The discipline started by Mathieu Orfila that looks for toxins in the blood
What is toxicology?
The principle that states that whenever two objects come into contact with each other, they exchange material
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
The federal crime lab that prevents misuse of the mail system and protects USPS employees
What is USPIS?
What is cause?
Choose class evidence or individual evidence: blood type
What is class evidence?
The discipline of forensic science that uses bones as a means of personal identificaiton
What is anthropology?
A method for personal identification by taking body measurements
What is anthropometry?
The federal crime lab that deals with large-scale drug trafficking operations
What is the DEA?
Choose cause, manner, or mechanism: Linda was stabbed in the stomach by Kamari.
What is cause?
Choose class or individual evidence: a glass bottle broken into eight large pieces
What is individual evidence?
The discipline of forensic science that would utilize gel electrophoresis
The first director of the FBI
What is J. Edgar Hoover?
What is explosions?
What is accidental?
The type of chromatography involving a solid stationary phase and a moving liquid phase (no abbreviation)
What is thin layer chromatography?
Another term for firearms examination
What is ballistics?
The year Sir Alec Jeffreys discovered DNA profiling
What is 1984?
What is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation?
The medical term for the cause of death by blood loss
What is exsanguination?
The analysis technique that is used to determine the structure of a molecule by measuring the frequencies the bonds between atoms vibrate at (no abbreviations)
What is infared spectroscopy?
The study of blood
What is serology?