Forensic Job Duties
This person uses evidence to charge a suspect
What are police detectives?
This unit processes and examines the evidence for latent (hidden) fingerprints.
What is the Fingerprint Unit
bodily fluid that transports gasses, nutrients, and immunity cells
What is blood?
The angle at which a blood droplet strikes a surface.
Who are the scientists that won the Nobel Prize for discovering DNA
Who are Watson and Crick?
These people are the first to arrive on a scene, and are responsible to confine the scene when they arrive
Who are Law Enforcement officers?
The forensic specialist unit who tests for drugs or foreign compounds in the human body
What is the toxicology unit?
a method used as identification, Hint: Dexoyribonucleic
What is DNA?
Proteins created by lymphocytes located in the immune system that recognize and neutralize foreign substances.
What are antibodies?
The person credited for creating the classification system for fingerprinting
Who is Francis Galton?
this forensic science career would be best for someone who is interested in examining and processing bodily remains
What is a Forensic anthropologist ?
Staffed with biochemists and biologists that apply techniques to identify DNA profiling, blood, and other body fluids. They also examine hairs, fibers, wood, and plants.
What is the Biological Unit?
a method used as identification, Hint: whorl
What is fingerprints?
The system the FBI uses to store fingerprints, tattoo information, and other human identifiers from the skin and body
What is the IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System)
Created the principle "Every contact leaves a trace"
Who is Edmond Locard?
Experts in the fields of criminal justice and science who, using their knowledge of how insects aid in bodily decomposition, can determine the time and source of death.
Who are Entomologists?
The specialists who use highly specialized technology aids in the preparation of photographic exhibits for courtroom presentation.
What is the Photography unit
a method used as identification, Hint: toothpaste
What are teeth?
A three-dimensional fingerprint impression made in a soft material.
What is a plastic fingerprint?
The author that wrote fictional Sherlock Holmes crime novels that popularized physical science methods in a crime scene.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The forensic specialist that uses medical science for legal purposes, such as determining cause of death?
Who is the pathologist?
The specialists who analyze handwriting and typewriting on questioned documents which are studied to ascertain authenticity and/or the source.
Documentation Unit
a method used as identification, Hint: comb
What is hair?
A fiber originating from plants, animals, or minerals.
What is a natural fiber?
Devised a method of photographing crime scenes. Known for the "mugshot". Also the Creator of anthropometry
Who is Alphonse Bertillion?