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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
