FRSC 1011 Exam Questions with
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forensic science - ✔✔the application of science to civil and criminal law
Yi Yu Ji - ✔✔first documented case of science applied to a criminal investigation ('A Collection
of Criminal Cases')
Alphonse Bertillon's anthropometry - ✔✔first system of personal identification, based on a
series of body measurements
Marcello Malphigi - ✔✔first to recognize ridges, spirals, and loops in fingerprints
Thomas Taylor and Henry Faulds - ✔✔suggested fingerprints could be used in human
identification
Henry Galton - ✔✔provided statistical evidence for the uniqueness of fingerprints, developed
system for classifying prints
Hans Gross - ✔✔wrote the first influential treatise on the application of scientific principles to
the field of criminal investigation
Mathieu Orfila - ✔✔father of forensic toxicology, published treatise on poisons
Dr. Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔discovered that blood can be grouped into different categories (A, B,
O)
, Edmund Locard - ✔✔founder & director of earliest workable crime lab, stated that 'every
contact leaves a trace'
Dr. Walter C. McCrone - ✔✔leading figure in microscopy, particularly in forensic applications
Colonel Calvin Goddard - ✔✔refined firearms examination using comparison microscopy to see
if two bullets could have been fired from the same gun
Sir Alec Jeffreys - ✔✔developed the first DNA profiling test in 1984
forensic services in Canada - ✔✔Six RCMP labs; Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto; Institute
of Legal Medicine and Police Science in Montreal; 13 OPP labs in Ontario
importance of physical evidence - ✔✔free from inherent error or bias
Frye v. United States - ✔✔Rejected validity of polygraph test; established that evidence must
be 'generally accepted' by the scientific community to be admissible
lay witness - ✔✔can only provide facts, not personal opinions or interpretation
expert witness - ✔✔qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training, etc. and is called upon to
evaluate evidence/express opinion as to significance of findings
priorities of first responding officer - ✔✔acquiring medical assistance for victims, detaining
suspects/witnesses, securing the scene, calling for additional personnel
indicators of timing of incident - ✔✔electronics turned on, temperature of running water,
partially eaten/prepared food, car engine warm/cold, snow...
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forensic science - ✔✔the application of science to civil and criminal law
Yi Yu Ji - ✔✔first documented case of science applied to a criminal investigation ('A Collection
of Criminal Cases')
Alphonse Bertillon's anthropometry - ✔✔first system of personal identification, based on a
series of body measurements
Marcello Malphigi - ✔✔first to recognize ridges, spirals, and loops in fingerprints
Thomas Taylor and Henry Faulds - ✔✔suggested fingerprints could be used in human
identification
Henry Galton - ✔✔provided statistical evidence for the uniqueness of fingerprints, developed
system for classifying prints
Hans Gross - ✔✔wrote the first influential treatise on the application of scientific principles to
the field of criminal investigation
Mathieu Orfila - ✔✔father of forensic toxicology, published treatise on poisons
Dr. Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔discovered that blood can be grouped into different categories (A, B,
O)
, Edmund Locard - ✔✔founder & director of earliest workable crime lab, stated that 'every
contact leaves a trace'
Dr. Walter C. McCrone - ✔✔leading figure in microscopy, particularly in forensic applications
Colonel Calvin Goddard - ✔✔refined firearms examination using comparison microscopy to see
if two bullets could have been fired from the same gun
Sir Alec Jeffreys - ✔✔developed the first DNA profiling test in 1984
forensic services in Canada - ✔✔Six RCMP labs; Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto; Institute
of Legal Medicine and Police Science in Montreal; 13 OPP labs in Ontario
importance of physical evidence - ✔✔free from inherent error or bias
Frye v. United States - ✔✔Rejected validity of polygraph test; established that evidence must
be 'generally accepted' by the scientific community to be admissible
lay witness - ✔✔can only provide facts, not personal opinions or interpretation
expert witness - ✔✔qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training, etc. and is called upon to
evaluate evidence/express opinion as to significance of findings
priorities of first responding officer - ✔✔acquiring medical assistance for victims, detaining
suspects/witnesses, securing the scene, calling for additional personnel
indicators of timing of incident - ✔✔electronics turned on, temperature of running water,
partially eaten/prepared food, car engine warm/cold, snow...
