HOSA Forensic Science Practice Test

What is the fourth thing a forensic scientist should do?

Allow for certainty and probabilistic considerations wherever appropriate through this ranking

What is the second step of the scientific method

Test hypothesis using observation or experimentation

Who developed an advanced photographic method of comparing markings on bullets

Victor Balthazad

What can you do after certification

To be further certified in a specialty area

What are private laboratories

Businesses designed to make a profti

What is the identification of suspects using 11 body measurements

Anthropometric/bertillonage

What is contrite fallibism

The awareness of how much we do not know and the humility to Acknowledge the possibility of making mistakes

Certification

A forensic scientist that has completes a written test covering their discipline

Who coined the term of "criminalistics"

Hans gross

What does accreditation also require

Re-accreditation on a set schedule

Who was the cousin of Charles darwin

Sir Francis Galton

Who helped advance fingerprint, firearms, and hair analysis

Victor Balthazad

Who is credited with establishing examination of firearms evidence in US

Galvin Goddard

What will the office of the chief medical examiner also have

Toxicology laboratories to analyze postmortem samples

Who developed the first classification for fingerprints

Sir Francis Galton

What poison did Mathieu Orfila spend the most time studying

Arsenic

What board covers the most diverse set of forensic disciplines

American Board of Criminalists

What is the scientific method?

Data based and founded on concepts taken collectively through a series of steps

What is the adversial system?

Two positions arguing for acceptance

How does certification begin

Passing a multiple choice test

What is the first step of the scientific method?

Formulate hypothesis

Who normally works as privates consultants

Forensic anthropologists designed to make a profit

What is the first thing a forensic scientist should do

Distinguish evidence from coincidence

Chemicals foreign to the body

Xenobiotics

Effects of drugs at different dosages for the relationship between dose and effect

Dose-response texts

class characteristic evidence

Doesn't reference a particular suspect

exculpatory evidence

evidence that suggests the defendant's innocence

Pharmokinetics

the study of drugs within the body, absorption , distribution, metabolism, excretion

Dose-response tests

Effects of drugs at different dosages for the relationship between dose and effect

Chemical Evidence

seized drugs, toxicological samples, materials chemistry, and explosives

antagonist drugs

Drugs that block effects

Pharmacologist

Studies natural and synthetic chemicals

Locard's Exchange Principle

Every contact leaves a trace

Forensic Entomology

The study of insects and their relation to a criminal investigation

Chemical excretion by means of

Feces, sweat, saliva, breast milk, nails and hair cut

Firearm and tool mark evidence?

Type of impression, bullets, shells

enterohepatic circulation

A continual recycling of compounds such as bile acids between the small intestine and the liver.

Frye Standard

the evidence in question must be "generally accepted" by the scientific community

drug's half-life

amount of time it takes for 50% of blood concentration of a drug to be eliminated from the body

Lipophilic chemicals

Stores in fat cells, released into blood stream

Toxicologist

specialist in the study of poisons

Plasma protein chemicals

Released slowly into cells

Manner of death

Homicide, suicide, natural, accident, undetermined

Impression Evidence

"Includes toolmarks, tire tracks, shoe prints, and bite marks"

Individual characteristic evidence

Characteristics that can be identified as originating from a particular source

Carcinogens

Cancer causing agents

Criminalistics

the examination of physical evidence

Biological Evidence

body fluids, hair, plant parts, natural fibers

Forensic Anthropology

Analysis of bodily remains

direct evidence

Information the established directly and requires no inference