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Fingerprints
Hair and fibers
Forensic History
Physical evidence
This an That
100
This fingerprint pattern is the most common.
What is the loop.
100
The final growth phase in which the hair naturally falls out.
What is the telegenic phase.
100
Alphonse Bertillon developed this identification system using body measurements.
What is anthropometry.
100
This type of forensic scientist studies impression evidence of the teeth.
What is an odontologist.
100
The first critical step in crime scene investigation.
What is to secure and isolate the crime scene.
200
Approximately 5 percent of the population have this type of fingerprint.
What is the arch.
200
The organ that the hair grows out of.
What is the hair follicle.
200
Who came up with the principle that states, "When two objects come into contact with each other, a cross-transfer of materials occur."
Who is Locard.
200
This unit analyzes paper and ink.
What is the document examination unit.
200
A method that preserves fingerprints after they are visualized.
What is photography.
300
This type of fingerprint is not readily visible.
What is "latent" fingerprints.
300
This natural plant fiber is the most prevalent.
What is cotton.
300
This entity maintains the largest crime laboratory in the word.
What is the FBI.
300
This unit examines body fluids, and organs for drugs and poisons.
What is the toxicology unit.
300
These are the three methods that crime scenes are recorded.
What are sketches, notes and photography.
400
The form and pattern of skin ridges are determined by these.
What are the dermal papillae.
400
The hair shaft is composed of these three layers.
What are the cuticle, medulla and the cortex.
400
The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also known by this acronym.
What is IAFIS
400
This crime unit collects and preserves physical evidence.
What is the Crime-scene investigation lab.
400
The type of reasoning used for solving the "Deadly Picnic" case study.
What is deductive reasoning.
500
This person developed a method for classifying fingerprints.
Who is Francis Galton.
500
Forcibly removed hair specimens are often a source of DNA when they have one of these attached.
What is a follicular tag.
500
This friend of Rudolf was the perpetrator who stole the Gingerbread Man's leg.
Who was Yukon Cornelius.
500
A list of all people who come in possession of a piece of evidence.
What is a Chain of Custody.
500
Properties of evidence that can be attributed to a single source with an extremely high degree of certainty.
What are individual characteristics.