Hair and Fibers
What protein is hair made of?
Keratin
The 3 types of fingerprints people can have
Loops, whorls and archs
The four different blood types are
A, B, AB and O
What is the technical term for the study of bones, which can aid in determining age, gender, and other characteristics of a individual
Forensics anthropology
When 2 objects make contact, trace particles are transferred between them.
Locard's principle of exchange
The 3 main parts that make up a hair
medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle
A type of impression that is a result of visible material left on a surface
Patent impression
What is the most common blood type
O Blood
The pooling of fluids due to gravity after death
Livor mortis
A hypothesis of the sequence of events that took place before and while a crime was committed
Crime-scene reconstruction
A fiber composed of long chains of repeating chemical units.
Polymer
The combination of details and shapes that make up the finer features of a ridge pattern.
Minutiae
The immune response used to indicate a blood type
Agglutination
At what age do bones stop growing
30 years old
This type of evidence(if authentic) supports a fact of a case
Direct Evidence
The color or pigment for a hair is found in this part of the hair shaft
The cortex
Prints that can't seen without dusting or treatment are called:
Latent fingerprints
Cell in the blood is responsible for clotting and preventing excessive bleeding
Platlet
The process that replaces cartilage with bone over a lifetime
Ossification
Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene
Trace evidence
What type of fiber is made by chemically treating/altering a natural fiber?
Regenerated fiber
The distance from the center of the front wheel to the center of the back wheel on the same side of a car.
Wheel-base
The shape formed on a blood splatter which is the result of impact and can be used to determine the direction of impact
Spine
What do we call the steps/phases of a larva's lifecycle. (before pupation)
Instar
This field of forensics science applies principle of physics to analyze accidents and reconstruct events, such as vehicle collisions
Forensics physics or accident reconstruction