Anth 246 questions with accurate answers
A body was recovered from a drainage ditch and brought to the county's
Office of the Medical Examiner. Upon examination of the body, the
pathologists discovered that the deceased had a hip replacement, and
they were able to read the brand (Hipster Manufacturing) and serial
number (167482828) for the metal hip socket. The case investigator
contacted the company to see if they could tell him anything further
about the particular serial number. Hipster Manufacturing stated that the
serial number represented a batch of 100 hip replacement parts that were
distributed throughout the U.S. at random, each with this same serial
number on it. By looking up additional statistics on all hip replacement
companies servicing the U.S., the investigator found that at present there
are 89,000 hip replacement parts. Therefore, the frequency of the
particular part found in the body is 1 of the 100 out of 89,000 present in
the U.S., and Ans✓✓✓ .001
A coroner's responsibilities include: (select all that are true) Ans✓✓✓
Ruling on cause and manner of death
Going to the scene of the death
Running the death investigation
A DNA technical leader in a public crime lab is responsible for
Ans✓✓✓ all of the other options are correct
A female will have an X and Y chromosome. Ans✓✓✓ false
,A forensic anthropologist's biological profile assessment includes
estimations of: Ans✓✓✓ stature, sex, age, and ancestry
A gene pair made up of 2 similar alleles—for example, AA or BB—is
said to be: Ans✓✓✓ homozygous
A goal of the forensic investigator is to secure and document the crime
scene while minimizing changes to crime scene evidence. Ans✓✓✓
True
A heterozygote in a diploid individual would have 2 different alleles at
the designated locus. Ans✓✓✓ True
A locus describes: Ans✓✓✓ a location on a chromosome
A medical examiner is responsible for which of the following cases:
Ans✓✓✓ An elderly person dies of natural causes in a nursing home
An in-custody death of a 26 year-old, otherwise healthy male
A presumptive ID differs from a positive ID in that: Ans✓✓✓ Both A
and C
, A single mechanism of death can be produced from a variety of causes
of death Ans✓✓✓ True
according to dr. cencich Ans✓✓✓ a law that allows a country to arrest
one of their own citizens for a war crime committed in a different
country
according to John Hanlon Ans✓✓✓ Change 1 and Change 3
AFIS converts fingerprints into digital _________ to compare with
fingerprints from a large database. Ans✓✓✓ minutaie
All of the following are desirable traits of a hypothesis, except:
Ans✓✓✓ It is complex
All of the following statements regarding physical evidence is true,
EXCEPT: Ans✓✓✓ An example of transient evidence is drugs.
All states have adopted the Daubert standard for admissibility of
scientific evidence Ans✓✓✓ False
An MNI is set at 13. Which of the following inventories fits this
estimation? Ans✓✓✓ 13 right radius
A body was recovered from a drainage ditch and brought to the county's
Office of the Medical Examiner. Upon examination of the body, the
pathologists discovered that the deceased had a hip replacement, and
they were able to read the brand (Hipster Manufacturing) and serial
number (167482828) for the metal hip socket. The case investigator
contacted the company to see if they could tell him anything further
about the particular serial number. Hipster Manufacturing stated that the
serial number represented a batch of 100 hip replacement parts that were
distributed throughout the U.S. at random, each with this same serial
number on it. By looking up additional statistics on all hip replacement
companies servicing the U.S., the investigator found that at present there
are 89,000 hip replacement parts. Therefore, the frequency of the
particular part found in the body is 1 of the 100 out of 89,000 present in
the U.S., and Ans✓✓✓ .001
A coroner's responsibilities include: (select all that are true) Ans✓✓✓
Ruling on cause and manner of death
Going to the scene of the death
Running the death investigation
A DNA technical leader in a public crime lab is responsible for
Ans✓✓✓ all of the other options are correct
A female will have an X and Y chromosome. Ans✓✓✓ false
,A forensic anthropologist's biological profile assessment includes
estimations of: Ans✓✓✓ stature, sex, age, and ancestry
A gene pair made up of 2 similar alleles—for example, AA or BB—is
said to be: Ans✓✓✓ homozygous
A goal of the forensic investigator is to secure and document the crime
scene while minimizing changes to crime scene evidence. Ans✓✓✓
True
A heterozygote in a diploid individual would have 2 different alleles at
the designated locus. Ans✓✓✓ True
A locus describes: Ans✓✓✓ a location on a chromosome
A medical examiner is responsible for which of the following cases:
Ans✓✓✓ An elderly person dies of natural causes in a nursing home
An in-custody death of a 26 year-old, otherwise healthy male
A presumptive ID differs from a positive ID in that: Ans✓✓✓ Both A
and C
, A single mechanism of death can be produced from a variety of causes
of death Ans✓✓✓ True
according to dr. cencich Ans✓✓✓ a law that allows a country to arrest
one of their own citizens for a war crime committed in a different
country
according to John Hanlon Ans✓✓✓ Change 1 and Change 3
AFIS converts fingerprints into digital _________ to compare with
fingerprints from a large database. Ans✓✓✓ minutaie
All of the following are desirable traits of a hypothesis, except:
Ans✓✓✓ It is complex
All of the following statements regarding physical evidence is true,
EXCEPT: Ans✓✓✓ An example of transient evidence is drugs.
All states have adopted the Daubert standard for admissibility of
scientific evidence Ans✓✓✓ False
An MNI is set at 13. Which of the following inventories fits this
estimation? Ans✓✓✓ 13 right radius
