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The document is a review guide for a final exam on forensic science. It contains questions about various topics in forensic science including crime scene investigation, drugs and toxicology, blood analysis, DNA analysis, trace evidence, arson and explosives, firearms analysis, fingerprints and document analysis. The guide instructs students to use their notes and reliable online sources to answer the questions, and to return the guide at the end of the period.

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FORENSIC SCIENCE

GRFFIN

SLO/FINAL EXAM REVIEW


(You may use your notes, sources from the wiki page, or RELIABLE sources on the Internet)

DO NOT WRITE ON. TURN GUIDE BACK IN AT END OF PERIOD.


THANKS!
Unit 1: Introduction to Forensics, Crime Scene

9. What is the most utilized crime lab in the U.S.?

Analysis & Physical Evidence


1. What are the three most basic types of

10. What are the different units of a crime lab?

crime scene recording methods? Name and


describe them.

Give an example of evidence that would be


sent to each unit.

2. What are the parts that need to be included


on all crime scene sketches?
3. What is a chain of custody document and
why is it important in an investigation?

11. Which unit has the responsibility for the


examination of body fluids and organs for
the presence of drugs and poisons?

4. Explain the difference between evidence

12. Forensic odontology refers to the study of

that has class characteristics and evidence

_____________________.

that has individual characteristics.


5. What is Locards Exchange Principle and
how is this principle important to forensic

13. What is the Frye vs. United States case and


how did it influence admissible evidence? (didnt cover,
but still interesting. )

science?
14. Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
6. What are the main reasons for the
increase of crime labs in the United States?

15. What is the difference between manner of


death, cause of death, and mechanism of

7. Which agency maintains the largest crime

death?

laboratory in the world?

8. Who established the first crime lab?

16. Describe a death and identify the cause, manner, and


mechanism of it.

17. What is forensic anthropology? What do

forensic anthropologists usually study?

27. What is the Controlled Substances Act?

18. What is the difference between algor

28. Who is known as the Father of Forensic

mortis, rigor mortis, and livor mortis?

Toxicology?

19. What part of the body would a forensic

29. What are the different color tests and what

anthropologist most likely use to determine

drugs do they identify?

height?
30. What does chromatography do?
20. What part of the body would a forensic
anthropologist most likely use to determine

Unit 3: Blood

sex?

31. What can the shape of the bloodstain tell us


about the crime?

21. What part of the body would a forensic


anthropologist most likely use to determine

32. What is a luminol test?

shoe size?
33. What is the Kastle-Meyer Color Test?
22. What are the categories of manners of
death?

34. What does a blood stain that has impacted


a site at LESS than 90 degrees look like?

23. What bugs are most commonly used in


forensic entomology?

35. What shape does a blood stain that has


impacted a site at a 90 angle have?

24. A man with a heart condition is attacked


and dies from a heart attack during the

36. What is the difference between low

assault. How would you categorize the

velocity, medium velocity, and high velocity

manner of death? Explain your answer.

blood spatter?

25. What is the life cycle of the fly?

37. What would the correct packaging be for


bloodstained material found at a crime

Unit 2: Drugs & Toxicology

scene? Why would you use this type of

26. What are the drug classifications and what

packaging?

are some examples of each?

38. Generally, bloodstain diameter

50. What is the technology that is used for DNA

___________ as height increases.

replication and has begun to replace RFLP?

39. What is the difference between the parent


drop, the spine, and the satellite?

51. Can people have similar tandem repeats in


their DNA even if they are not identical

40. What antigens are on each blood type?

twins?

41. What chemical does the Kastle-Meyer test

Unit 5: Trace Evidence

use to test for the presence of blood?

52. Why is the cortex important in the hair


shaft?

42. What is the standard test to determine if


blood comes from an animal or human?

53. What part of the hair shaft contains scales?

Unit 4: DNA Analysis

54. What is the medulla?

43. What does DNA stand for?


55. What is the difference between a natural
44. What are the base pairing rules? How do

and synthetic fiber? Give examples.

they contribute to DNAs ability to be


replicated?

56. What are the most common crimes that


involve the analysis of paint?

45. What is CODIS and how does it help


forensic scientists?

57. What is the database that stores an


automobiles make, model, and year?

46. Describe the process of PCR and explain


why it is important to Forensic Science.

58. When examining soil, what is the most


logical first step?

47. What are the differences between mitochondrial and


nuclear DNA?

59. Pigment granules that impart hair with


color are found in the _________________

48. What is the sugar component of DNA

of the hair shaft.

called?
60. What are the three stages of hair?
49. What is the backbone of the DNA structure
composed of?

61. In what stage can a hair most readily be

72. How should explosive debris be packaged?

removed from the scalp?

Unit 7: Firearms, Tools & Other Impressions


73. What are striations? How do they help

Unit 6: Arson & Explosives

when examining firearm evidence?

62. What would the correct packaging be for


burned material found at a crime scene?

74. A bullet is recovered at a crime scene and a

Why would you use this type of packaging?

gun is found nearby. What is the next step


for determining if this bullet was fired from

63. What is the fire triangle? What are the

that particular firearm?

three components?
75. What is the difference between lands and
64. Define flash point.

grooves?

65. What are accelerants?

76. What is ballistics?

66. What is the point of origin? How is it

77. What are the elements that are present in

determined?

gunshot residue?

67. Is a search warrant needed to search a fire

78. What is the database where images of fired

scene?

bullets can be searched?

68. Compare and contrast low and high

79. What can gunshot residue determine?

explosions.
80. What is rifling?
69. Compare and contrast primary and
secondary explosions.

81. What type of guns have rifling?

70. What are the three types of heat transfer?

82. What type of crime scene are tool marks


most common?

71. What is the most widely used instrument


for detecting the presence of explosive
residues?

Unit 8: Fingerprints & Document Analysis

fingerprints important?

83. What is the difference between defraud and


counterfeiting?

89. What are ridges, and how are they


important to the individuality of

84. What is an exemplar?

fingerprints?

85. What element is contained in counterfeiting

90. What is the difference between a visible,

detecting pens and markers?

latent, and plastic fingerprint? Give examples.

86. What are the 12 characteristics of

91. What are the three types of fingerprint

handwriting?

patterns? Draw them.

87. What is AFIS? How is it important to

92. What is the most common type of

fingerprint evidence?

fingerprint pattern? The rarest type of


pattern?

88. Besides identification, why are having

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