Forensics 1
What is forensic science?
The application of scientific methods and techniques to matters under investigation by a court of law.
The liquid flowing through the circulatory system bringing oxygen to the body
What is blood?
A substance that can injure or kill a living thing.
What is poison?
These teeth are located behind the pre-molars
What are molars?
Liquid secreted by glands in the mouth
What is saliva?
What are the three types of crimes?
homicide, assault, and robbery
DNA's full scientific name.
What is DeoxyriboNucleic Acid?
Fang teeth on top and bottom of the jaw, also another word for dogs.
What are canines?
A thread-like piece of material from a woven fabric
What is a fiber?
Front flat teeth on the top and bottom of your jaw
What are incisors?
Looking at something without assistance of any device like a microscope or magnifying glass
What is the naked eye?
The powder substance produced by a seeded plant.
What is pollen?
The inner drive or reason that causes a suspect to commit a crime
What is motive?
Name 4 parts of a microscope.
base, arm, ocular lense, turret, stage, stage clips, objective lense, condenser, light source
How do you calculate the magnification power of the microscope?
Multiply the eyepiece's magnification by the objective lenses magnification
A liquid in which something will dissolve
What is a solvent?
Why are teeth so useful to Forensic Scientists?
They survive traumas like burial or submersion, and they last a long time.
Small amount of skin, hair, fabric or other material that may link a suspect to a crime scene
What is trace evidence?
Process of separating chemicals into its components
What is chromatography?
One who authorities think may have committed a crime.
What is a suspect?
This group is most affected by murder/homicide.
What are ages 35-54?
The shared exchange of something between two people, or objects that have come in contact with one another.
What is cross-transfer?
The study of body fluids, including blood.
What is serology?
What is the calculation for Rf Value?
distance traveled by compound
______(divided by)__________
distance travelled by solvent front
The study of substances and their effect on living things
What is toxicology?