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Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
Vocabulary III
Fingerprints I
Fingerprints II
100
Process of separating a mixture into its individual components, such as determining the compounds in gasoline.
What is chromatography?
100
Abbreviation for gunshot residue.
What is GSR?
100
Instrument used to examine hairs & fibers in detail.
What is a microscope?
100
Type of print left on a surface at a crime scene, such as a tool handle, glass, door, etc.
What is a latent print?
200
Study of firearms and ammunition.
What is ballistics?
200
Substances that give color to objects, such as paint, hair, and fibers.
What is a pigment?
200
Can be classified as loops, whorls, and arches.
What are fingerprints?
200
Most common type of fingerprint pattern.
What is a loop?
200
Database that can be used to find matches for fingerprints found at a crime scene.
What is AFIS?
300
Can be matched to a weapon and analyzed to determine a weapon's size, shape, or length as well as clues about the victim or suspect.
What is a wound?
300
The universal solvent.
What is water?
300
Type of fiber that is man-made.
What is a synthetic fiber?
300
Least common type of fingerprint pattern.
What is an arch?
300
The percent of loops in the population.
What is 60%?
400
Database that is used to find matches for DNA evidence gathered from a crime scene or victim.
What is CODIS?
400
Type of print left on a surface at a crime scene, such as a tool handle, glass, door, etc.
What is an impression?
400
Database used to find matches to bullets or firearms found at a crime scene.
What is IBIS?
400
List two ridge characteristics.
What is core, ending ridge, short ridge, fork, delta, dot, eye, hook, specialty, enclosures, crossover, bridge
500
Forms when an object is torn or broken; edges can be examined to see if they match.
What are fracture lines?
500
Principle that states "with contact between two items, there will be an exchange."
What is Locard's Principle?
500
Points on a fingerprint where the ridge structure changes, such as forks, bridges, and deltas.
What are minutiae?
500
Loop opens toward the thumb.
What is a radial loop?