crimmy

The oldest forensic laboratory in US is

LAPD

Who is known as father of forensic toxicology

Mathew Ofilia

Who postulated exchange of evidence principle

Loccard

Who undertook the first study of fingerprints

Galton

Who established the comparison microscope

Goddard

Who developed the system known as anthropometry

Alphonse Bertillion

Forensic odontology

teeth

Which of the following can be rightfully cited as an explanation for the rapid growth in crime labs for the last 25 years

All the above

Which entity maintains the largest crime lab in the world

FBI

Final evaluator of forensic evidence is

jury

The concept of general acceptance refers to

frey standard

In the case Dalbert vs Pharmaceutical, US Supreme court advocated that the gatekeeper is

the trial judge

The collection of standard reference samples at a crime scene is important because

Permits comparisons to be made with evidence

Which is not a manner of death

Drowning

Who is the first witness to arrive at a crime scene

the fly

Rigamortis refers to

stiffness of death

The successful outcome of a criminal investigation is almost always directly related to:

the manner in which evidence is collected and preserved

The rate of cooling of a dead body can be influenced by all but

gender of victim

Which part of the decedent's body resists rapid decomposition and is used by the forensic anthropologist to provide information about the deceased

bones

If the cause of death cannot be found through simple observation you would need to do an

autopsy

Typically about an hour and a half after death, the decedents body loses heat at a rate of

 1 to 1.5 Fahrenheit

To determine the gender of skeletal remains, a forensic anthropologist can examine all of the following areas of the skeleton to determine gender except:

vertebrae

Evidence of tampering with position of a body after death can be obtained by evaluating

livor mortis

All the following items may be placed in air-tight containers except

bloodstained evidence

A shoe print database is called

SICAR

DNA Database

CODIS: became fully operational in 1998

Autopaint Database

PDQ

A component for NIBIN is called

IBIS

The role of forensic entomologist

xamine bugs to figure out the time of death

Forensic Anthropologist

examines bones, finds out age and gender 

To calculate the overall frequency of occurrence of a blood type in a population

product rule is applied

The chain of custody is

A list of all people who handle the evidence

Name the four search patterns

grid, spiral, zone, line

Physical evidence is considered to have

greater value 

Three ways to record a crime scene

photos, notes, sketches

a national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the FBI

Iafis

Forensic databases are maintained for all of the following except

dental impressions

If a lab can piece together pieces of broken glass or a headlight, the evidence is considered to have

an individual characteristic

Evidence having class characteristics can

exonerate an innocent suspect

Physical evidence can be used to exonerate or exclude a person from suspicion if

the standard reference sample does not share the characteristics of the evidence from a crime scene

The stage fusion of various bones within a skeleton can be used to estimate the ____ of a decedent

age

If the cause of death cannot be found through simple observation

an autopsy

Charred debris should be packaged

in an airtight container 

Which of the following is a correct physical evidence collection procedure

victim’s clothing should be collected and vacuumed to obtain trace evidence

What is a major problem facing the DNA community

backlog of unanalyzed DNA samples

The first officer arriving at a crime scene after giving first aid or making a arrest should

 secure the scene

A rough sketch need not include

a sketch of a suspect

What crime scene pattern would require more than one investigator

zone