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A recognizable pattern of the riges found in the end joints of fingers that form lines on the surfaces of objects in a fingerprint.
What is ridge pattern?
Visible fingerprint on a surface.
What is a patent fingerprint?
The center of a loop or whorl.
What is the core?
Credited for solving the first murder using fingerprints.
Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
What are the toes?
The combination of details in the shapes and positions of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique.
What are minutiae?
A hidden fingerprint that is made visible with powder or other techniques.
What is a latent fingerprint?
An impression left on any surface that consists of paterns made by the ridges on a finger.
What is a fingerprint?
First noted that fingerprints were unique to each person and did not change with age?
Who is Sir William Herschel?
The data-base that makes it possible to obtain a fingerprint "match" within several hours.
What is IAFIS?
A fingerprint pattern that resembles a bull's eye.
What is a whorl?
A three-dimensional fingerprint made in soft material.
What is a plastic fingerprint?
Fingerprints are formed at this age.
What is 10 weeks gestation?
The mixture of these two substances from the skin mixing with dirt makes a fingerprint.
What are oil and secretions?
The most common type of fingerprints.
What are Loops?
A fingerprint pattern that originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side.
What is an arch?
A triangular ridge pattern.
What is a delta?
The reason fingerprint identification is not perfect.
What is human error?
Fingerprints are considered this form of evidence.
What is individual evidence?
A fingerprint pattern that flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin.
What is a loop?
A form that is used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints.
What is a ten card?
The name of the author that wrote about a lawyer who used fingerprints as forensic evidence before it was common knowledge.
Who is Mark Twain?
This type of print must be dusted or treated in order to identify the ridge pattern.
What are latent prints?