The study and analysis of bloodstains at a crime scene to draw conclusions about the nature of the crime.
What is Blood Spatter Analysis?
On the surface of the Red Blood Cell.
Where are antigens located?
What is AB+?
The result when the target surface is at a steep angle to the blood drop.
What is an elongated bloodstain?
A droplet of blood that falls without any force other than gravity.
What is a passive drop?
Test that determines if a substance is blood or not.
What is the Presumptive Blood Test?
What is the Kastle-Meyer Test?
In the plasma.
Where are antibodies located?
The Universal Donor blood type.
What is O-?
What is Medium Velocity Impact?
Bloodstain patterns in a linear pattern of round droplets could be caused by this.
What is a person walking while bleeding?
The reaction caused when antibodies from one blood type identify antigens from another blood type.
What is agglutination?
The presence of specific antigens on the erythrocytes determines this.
What is blood type?
A strategic tool to determine possible genetic outcomes.
What is a Punnet Square?
The tail of a bloodstain indicates this.
What is direction of travel?
Blood produced by blood leaving the mouth or nose under air pressure.
What is expirated blood?
The four components of blood. (NOT the common names)
What are erythrocytes, leukocytes, thrombocytes, and plasma?
An individual without A or B antigens would be this blood type.
What is Type O?
Possible blood types of a mom with AO blood and a dad with BO blood.
What are A, B, O, or AB?
Produces blood spatter that is 5 mm in diameter.
What is Low Velocity Impact?
Created by blood projected from an object in motion.
What is castoff?
The protein within blood cells that allows oxygen to be carried and give the red coloring.
What is hemoglobin?
An individual with A and B antigens would have this blood type.
What Type AB?
If a child has A- blood and the mother has O+ blood, which blood type could the father have?
What is A-?
Produces blood droplets less than 1 mm wide.
What is High Velocity Impact?
Smeared blood patterns created by objects moving through partially dried or existing blood on a surface.
What is a wipe?