CSI
A crime scene sketch artist is required to measure each object to two fixed locations in the crime scene and the distance between those fixed locations. This is known as:
What is triangulation?
In death investigations, forensic __________ allows the investigators the ability to establish timelines, determine if the corpse has been moved, and associate the death with drugs
What is entomology?
One common method of ________________ for crime investigations involves comparing lengths of cut up DNA of a suspect and DNA found at the crime scene.
The three general fingerprint patterns are _________________.
What are loops, arches, and whorls?
Crime scene _____________ involves the efforts of the medical examiner, police, and forensic scientists.
What is reconstruction?
After all life has been preserved, the next step in processing a crime scene is
What is secure the scene?
The time since death to time of discovery is known as the PMI. This stands for _______________.
What is Post-mortem interval?
These need to be added to DNA before gel electrophoresis to cut it up into fragments.
What is restriction enzymes?
This is a metabolic poison that interrupts the electron transport chain, a step in cellular respiration. It naturally occurs in seeds. It is often used in homicide and suicude cases.
What is cyanide?
This is caused by body transfer of oils present on finger ridges, invisible prints. (be specific)
What is latent prints?
Which type of evidence should always be packaged in paper bags?
What is bloody evidence?
Forensic Pathologists determine ________ of death which describes the general ‘type’ of death (i.e. homicide, natural, suicide, etc.)
What is manner of death?
Gel electrophoresis separates DNA fragments by ____________.
What is fragment size/length?
The database for storage, search, and retrieval of fingerprints is ___________________.
What is AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System)?
Unique ridge characteristics on a fingerprint are known as
What is minutiae?
When photographing evidence photos should be taken at three different angles with a _________ for reference.
What is scale?
Forensic Pathologists determine ________ of death after an autopsy is performed which describes the condition/reason someone died
What is cause of death?
The first step in any DNA profiling technique must be to isolate the nuclear DNA from the other cellular components. This is accomplished in the process of:
What is DNA extraction?
Which evidence analyses have increased so much throughout the years that these demands have been the single most important factor in the recent expansion of crime laboratory services in the United States?
What is drugs?
What is the name of the FBI database that collects DNA profiles from convicted felons?
This states that whenever two objects come into contact, they must affect each other in some way
What is Locards exchange principle?
In order to determine PMI forensic entomologists need to record the length of the blowflies and factor in _______________ data?
What is weather/temperature data?
The small amount of DNA often collected at crime scenes would need to be amplified by ____________.
What is PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)?
This is an analysis method that can identify drugs found in a person’s blood sample using bar graphs that show the weights of entire molecules as well as smaller pieces of molecules.
What is mass spectrometry?
This anatomical term refers to above/towards the head.
What is superior (cranial)?