Search for blood evidence
If any is discovered, process it determining:
Whether the evidence is blood or not
Whether the blood is human
The blood type
Interpret the findings:
There are four major blood types and two different antibodies:
You get your blood type from your parents. You can determine the possible blood types for an individual if you know the blood types of their parents
Your blood type is a phenotype, but some blood types can have multiple genotypes
Blood types A and B are dominant over O (recessive), but A and B are co-dominant with each other
The challenge or difficulty of forensic drug identification comes in selecting analytical procedures that will ensure a specific identification of a drug
This plan, or scheme of analysis, is divided into 2 phases:
Ricin: A poisonous protein in the castor bean, lethal in extremely small amounts, can enter the body in 3 ways:
Anthrax: Caused by the bacteria Bacillus Anthracus, which form spores
Types of Prints
There are 3 types of prints that investigators look for at crime scenes:
Processing the electronic crime scene has a lot in common with processing a traditional crime scene:
At this point, a decision must be made as to whether a live acquisition of the data is necessary