Fingerprints
DNA
At The Scene
Acronyms
USM
100

The three main fingerprint pattern classes are loops, whorls, and these. 

What are arches?

100

This molecule carries genetic information in nearly every cell of the human body. 

What is DNA?

100

The priority of the first responder arriving at a crime scene. 

What is providing emergency care and securing the scene?

100

This professional organization's acronym AAFS stands for what?

What is the American Academy of Forensic Science?

100

What was Mrs. Kristi’s major at USM?

What is Criminal Justice?

200

These fingerprints are generally invisible without special visualization methods. 

What are latent fingerprints?

200

These four nitrogenous bases make up DNA. 

What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine. 

200

Wet evidence should always be dried and then packaged in this material. 

What are paper bags?

200

MDIAI, which you should attend in the spring, stands for what?

What is the Mississippi Division of the International Association for Identification?

200
This was the name of the old forensic buidling at USM.

What is Arthell Kelley Hall (AKH). 

300

This powder is commonly applied with a brush to develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces?

What is fingerprint powder?

300

This laboratory technique amplifies specific DNA sequences. 

What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?

300

This principle states that when two objects come into contact, a cross transfer of materials occurs. 

What is Locard's Exchange Principle?

300
CODIS, a national genetic database for both victims and perpetrators, stands for what?

What is the Combined DNA Index System?

300
This professor at USM teaches a variety of classes such as Fingerprint Analysis, Footwear Analysis, and Forensic Capstone. 

Who is Richard Swearengin. 

400

This fingerprint pattern classes typically has two deltas. 

What are whorls?

400

This type of DNA is inherited through the maternal line. 

What is mitochondrial DNA?

400

Crime scene documentation method that records the precise location of physical evidence by measuring its straight-line distance from two distinct fixed reference points

What is triangulation method?

400

For those of you who fear Richard's wrath, the methodological acronym ACEV stands for what?

What is Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation, and Verification?

400

This individual is who the new Criminal Justice Building is named after.  

Who is Paul H. “Bud” Holmes. 

500

This database system is used to search and compare fingerprint records.

THE WHOLE NAME

What is Automated Fingerprint Identification System?

500
These repeating DNA sequences are commonly analyzed in forensic DNA profiling. 

What are STR’s (short tandem repeats)?

500

The search patterns that may be used to search a crime scene for evidence

What are line, grid, spiral, wheel, and quadrant?

500

LiDAR, a measurement technology that costs slightly more than the standard tape measure, stands for what?

What is Light Detection and Ranging?

500
These are all four of the old forensic programs emphasis’. 

What are Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Criminal Justice and Anthropology.