FIVS 205 Final Exam Review

You find a body that has been at a standard ambient temperature of 75 F. The medical examiner reports an eye potassium concentration of 15.4. How long ago, in hours, did the person die?

Between 49 and 51

You find a body that has been at a standard ambient temperature of 75 F. The medical examiner reports an eye potassium concentration of 16.9. How long ago, in hours, did the person die?

Between 57 and 59

You find a body that has been at a standard ambient temperature of 75 F. The medical examiner reports an eye potassium concentration of 15.8. How long ago, in hours, did the person die?

Between 51 and 53

You find a body that has been at a standard ambient temperature of 75 F. The medical examiner reports an eye potassium concentration of 12.2. How long ago, in hours, did the person die?

Correct!

Between 32 and 34

If a body is found at 69.8 F, what is the maximum number of hours that we can calculate the body has been there, using the core body temperature?

Between 26.5 and 27.5

You find a body indoors. The thermostat is set at 70 F. The medical examiner measures the rectal temperature at 31.8 C. How long has the body been dead in hours?

Between 8 and 10

Mathieu Orfila is considered the father of forensic ______.

Toxicology

The ______ (first name) ______ (last name) Case helped to discredit Bertillonage.

Will (or William) West

According to your reading, ______ is the study of the molecular mechanisms of bone development, regeneration, remodeling, and degeneration associated with age and pathology.

osteobiology

______ makes up about 1/3 of the living weight of a bone.

Water

Dental evidence was first accepted by the U.S. courts in the year ______, according to your reading.

1850

The normal adult mouth has how many teeth?

32

The antibiotic ______ becomes incorporated in the mineralization of teeth and bone, and can be viewed with a UV light.

tetracycline

The PRIMARY concern of a first responder is the ______ of responders and victims.

safety

Admissible evidence must be ______ and relevant.

reliable

The final step in the forensic examination process is the ______ of a crime scene.

Correct!

reconstruction

You learned two broad categories of tests: Identification and Comparison tests. ______ tests attempt to answer the question "What is it?"

Identification

Items considered of unknown or questioned origin until a comparison is made to a known standard are called ______ evidence.

associative

Evidence that can exclude a person as a source is known as ______ evidence.

exculpatory

A draft of the Federal Rules of Evidence was put forth in the year ______ (use numerals for the year).

1969

______ is the ability to estimate stature from long bone lengths due to the presence of patterned and proportional relationships between sizes of body parts.

Allometry

Court approved information that is used to determine a defendant s guilt or innocence is called ______.

evidence

The process of ______ the crime scene is defined as determining or eliminating the events that could have occurred at the crime scene by the analysis of the crime scene appearance, location and position of physical evidence, and the forensic laboratory examination of the physical evidence.

reconstructing

A ______ line is the term for the halo or brightness that enters into the material of greater RI.

becke

The classification of the crime scene labels the site of the original or first criminal activity as the ______ crime scene.

primary

______ evidence is evidence that establishes a fact without the need for further inference.

Direct

You are trying to analyze some striations on a bullet. You should run this information through the ______ database for comparison (use the acronym).

NIBIN

The single direction in which light vibrating is absorbed is referred to as ______ direction.

privileged

You find a note pad at a crime scene. The top page is gone, but you can faintly make out indentations of writing on the pad. This evidence falls into the category of ______ ______ evidence.

questioned document

You know that forensic evidence can be anything. In lecture you learned there are two types of evidence: direct and circumstantial. By definition, forensic evidence is ______ evidence.

circumstantial

______ evidence requires inference from a fact that is directly proven.

Circumstantial

Forensic evidence is considered ______ evidence.

circumstantial

Evidence that can include a person as a source is known as ______ evidence.

inculpatory

Linkage of persons, scene or objects is based on Sir Edmond ______'s exchange principle.

Locard

The ______ amendment of the constitution gives citizens the right to secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure.

4th

You learned several broad categories of evidence, including chemical evidence, impression evidence, questioned document evidence, etc. Using these types of categories, DNA is categorized into ______ evidence.

biological

In 1923, the ______ decision was handed down.

Frye

Edmond Locard proposed his principle of contact in the year ______. (use numerals)

1910

The study of how decomposition affects the environment is known as ______.

geotaphonomy

When bacteria decomposes blood in the blood vessels, it leaves characteristic colorations on the skin known as ______.

marbling

The lack of metabolism and respiration in individual cells is defined as cellular ______.

death

Rigor mortis forms after death due to lack of ______ formation.

ATP

Hydrogen sulfide poisoning results in ______ colored liver.

green

The drug ______ rarely kills directly but is a contributory factor in approximately 50% of traumatic death.

ethanol

Darkened spots on the skin due to burst capillaries are known as ______ spots.

tardieu's

Skin slippage usually occurs during the ______ stage of decomposition.

bloat

Self dissolution by body enzymes is known as ______.

autolysis

Drying and darkening of sclera causes ______ noire.

tache

Lack of ______ is a major feature of post mortem abrasions.

blood

The disintegration of body tissues in general is known as ______.

decomposition

In 1977, Massachusetts replaced the ____________ with a medical examiner.

coroner

The disease or injury that initiates the lethal chain of events that lead to death is known as the _______ of death.

cause

A man is struck in the head, which causes his death a moment later. This is a(n) ____________ injury.

perimortem

S. ____________ is a light gold to glossy dark brown cockroach, 1/2 to 5/8 long, with transverse yellow bands across its wings.

longipalpa

You get a call from your friend. She recently went down into her basement, and was upset to see several glossy brown to black roaches, approximately 1 _ inches long. When she turned on the light, they ran away (they were rather sluggish) but didn't fly. She says she is used to seeing them out doors during the spring and summer, and commonly sees them near her lawn and compost pile. Now that it's winter, she is seeing them in her basement. She has only seen a few, however, and they are not in her upstairs bathroom. You know that she has a(n) _______________ cockroach infestation.

oriental

The _______ is the most expensive pest for pet owners.

fleas

Flies MAY colonize a body within ___________ seconds. (Use numerals).

15

According to lecture, approximately __________ cockroach species are found in the world (use numerals).

3500

The scientific name for the German cockroach is ______ ______.

Blattella germanica

According to lecture, the fly family _________ is of greatest forensic importance, currently.

calliphoridae

The larval stage between molts in flies is known as a(n) ___________.

instar

Blow flies and bottle flies are in the family ___________.

calliphoridae

One of the most important factors that impacts insect development is __________.

temperature

The infestation of living humans or other vertebrate animals with dipteran larvae is called ________.

myiasis

Myiasis falls under the sub section _________ forensic entomology.

urban

According to lecture, there are approximately ____________ described species of Calliphoridae. (Use numerals)

1000

Fly strike is scientifically known as __________.

myiasis

You are asked to investigate a case of mortuary neglect. You are practicing ___________ forensic entomology.

urban

The lamboida suture BEGINS closing at age __________.

21

Bones have hardness due to their calcium and mineral content, while they have flexibility due to their _______________ content.

collagen

The antibiotic ______ becomes incorporated in the mineralization of teeth and bone.

tetracycline

The inner cheek can leave a print, known as a _________ print.

rugae

Using a broader range of estimated stature and age helps to avoid erroneous _____________.

exclusion

_______ paws are notoriously similar to human hands and feet.

Bear

The skeleton is formed by the development and growth of _______ centers.

Ossification

The difference in size and shape between males and females is called sexual _____________.

dimorphism

The ________ method isn't used to age living people, because the teeth must be disarticulated from the jaw.

Lamendin

___________ is the hardest substance in the body.

enamel

Muscle is connected to bones with ______, while bones are connected to bones with ______.

tendons, ligaments

Different agents of bone modification producing similar types of damage is known as _________.

equifinality

William ______ wrote the Guide to the Identification of Human Skeletal material in the year ______. This work is considered one of the major forensic anthropology texts.

Krogman, 1939

The FBI first created its forensic anthropology lab in the year _______.

1932

The pivotal article on examining skeletal remains and published in the FBI Bulletin was written by W.M. __________ in 1939.

Krogman

The Luetgert murder case took place in the year __________, and is a famous case in forensic anthropology.

1897

The __________ context is the immediate environment and surroundings where the body is found.

taphonomic

Thomas Dwight wrote his famous anthropology paper in the year __________.

1878

______________ is the study of origins, behavior, and development of humans.

Anthropology

The ______ is the end of the bone attached to what is commonly known as the growth plate. The growth plate is made of ______, which are cells that lay down cartilage.

epiphysis, chondroblasts

The authors of the first comprehensive book on hair analysis, The Hair of Man and Animals, published in 1910 were Alphonse ______ and Victor ______

Balthazard, Lambert

The English translation of the first forensic science textbook, Criminal Investigation, was published in the year ___________ (Use numerals only like this: 1492)

1893

Hans ____________ (last name only please!) is credited with coining the term criminalistics, which means scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime.

Gross

Sir Francis _________ (last name only, please!) is credited with developing the first classification system for fingerprints?

Galton

The Will __________ Case disproved Bertillonage.

West

Victor __________ is responsible for developing probability models, showing that fingerprints were unique (just put in the last name).

Balthazard

A set of rules that govern the conduct of a professional working in a given field is known as _________, according to your text.

ethics

Bertillonage is also known as ___________.

Anthropometry

The meeting of science and the courts of law is our simple definition of _____________ science.

forensic

The system that relies upon 11 body measurements with descriptive information as a method of systematic personal identification is called ___________. (Note: Choose one of the two terms here)

anthropometry

Hans Gross is credited with coining the term ___________, which means scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime.

criminalistics

Contrite ___________ is the state of understanding the limits of our knowledge and the ability to acknowledge that we are not infallible as scientists.

fallibilism