SPECIALITIES
This forensic scientist studies injury and disease to determine the cause of sickness or death, may also perform autopsies
What is a Pathologist or Medical Examiner?
This principle states that whenever two objects come into contact, material is transferred between them.
What is Locard’s Exchange Principle?
Developed the exchange principle that is named after him, the idea that if two items come in contact there is an exchange of matter between the objects
Edmond Locard
AFIS
What is the Automated Fingerprint Index System?
What is the first forensics course that you take?
FORS 2216-INTRO TO FORENSICS
This specialty analyzes bodily fluids like blood, urine, and saliva to detect drugs, alcohol, or poisons.
What is forensic toxicology?
What are class characteristics?
These are features of evidence that can associate it with a group but not a single unique source.
What contribution did Francis Galton make to forensic science?
Francis Galton designed the form used for fingerprinting and promoted its use a a means of identifying criminals.
NEAFs
Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists
Give 2 courses that Physical Methods is a prerequisite for.
What is Forensic Chem and Bio
This forensic specialty focuses on identifying individuals by analyzing ridge patterns on fingers, palms, and soles, including minutiae like bifurcations and ridge endings.
Who is a fingerprint analyst?
This type of error occurs when a positive control gives a negative result.
What is a false negative?
This physician is known as the "Father of Toxicology"
Mathiew Orfila
MSDS (think labs)
What is Material Safety Data Sheet?
List 5 professors that teach instrumental methods
Sawyer, Fossoul, Sawyer, Kammrath, Rickenbach, Schwartz, Torre, Valentin
This forensic specialty studies insects
What is Forensic entomology?
What is the difference between presumptive and confirmatory tests
Presumptive tests are rapid, sensitive, field-based screenings that identify the possibility of a substance (e.g., color tests, immunoassay screens), while confirmatory tests are highly specific laboratory analyses (e.g., GC-MS) that definitively identify the exact substance.
Who created the first systematic method of criminal identification using body measurements (anthropometry)
Alphonse Bertillon
STR
Short Tandem Repeat
Which Professor teaches the Animal Cruelty Course?
Prof. Virginia Maxwell
This forensic scientist identifies human remains by comparing teeth to dental records. They may also examine and identify bite marks.
What is a Forensic Dentist or Odontologist?
Give 3 main types of fingerprint patterns.
loops, whorls, and arches
What contributions did Hans Gross make to forensic science?
described the importance of physical evidence in solving crimes
CODIS
Combined DNA Index System
List 10 courses all forensics major must take
Anything that's right :)