Forensic Science: Final Examination with answers

Forensic Science: Final Examination
with answers
What is the definition of forensic science? ✅✅Act of gathering and interpreting
evidence so that it is presented to persuade a jury or judge that an act has or has not
taken place.

What are the steps to processing a crime scene? ✅✅1. Secure the CS 2. Separate
the witnesses 3. Scan/ Observe the CS 4. Document the CS 5. Sketch the CS 6.
Search for Evidence 7. Secure and collect the evidence

The least important factor about gathering evidence at a crime scene is the______?
✅✅Guilt of the suspect.

Before DNA and fingerprinting, what was the most common way to identify a suspect?
✅✅Eyewitnesses or Sketches

Method of Collection and Crime lab or DNA ✅✅Swab it and serology.

Method of Collection and Crime Lab for Bullets. ✅✅Pick it up and bag it. Ballistics.

Method of Collection and Crime lab for Fingerprints. ✅✅Tape and photograph.
Fingerprints.

Method of Collection and Crime lab for Hair. ✅✅Tweezers and bag it. Hair and Fiber.`

Method of Collection and Crime Lab for Ink. ✅✅Chemical Test. Documentation or
toxicology.

Method of Collection and Crime Lab for Poisons. ✅✅Bag it. Toxicology.

Method of Collection and Crime Lab for Wet Blood/Blood Spatter. ✅✅When wet you
have to swab it and use a vacuutainer and photograph. Serology.

Method of Collection and Crime Lab for Tire Tracks. ✅✅Photograph or mole. Trace.

Can two people have the same fingerprints? ✅✅No. Fingerprints are like DNA.
Everybody has a unique strand of it.

When do you develop your fingerprints? ✅✅When you are in the womb.

What do the ridges of fingerprints provide us with? ✅✅Grip.