TSA FORENSIC SCIENCE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
EMT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅emergency medical technician
DOA - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅dead on arrival
Carotid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅One of the two main arteries in the neck
ECG - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅electrocardiogram
Apneic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅not breathing
DI - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Death Investigator
Supine Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lying face up
Prone Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lying face down
Lateral Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Lying on the left or right side
Rigor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Stiffening in the joints and muscles a few hours after death
Lividity/Livor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Blood pooling in body areas closest to the ground due
to gravity causing discoloration.
Anthropophagy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the eating of human flesh by animals/insects
Vitreous chemistry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Analyzing the fluid in the globe of the eye
, Algor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Postmortem cooling of the body
subpoena - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅notice ordering someone to appear in court
Serum - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅fluid that blood is in without fibrinogen and platelets, which
disappear during clotting.
Fibrinogen - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a soluble protein present in blood plasma
Accelerant - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What is used to start and maintain a fire.
Acid Phosphate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An enzyme in many body tissues; used as screening
technique for semen and vaginal tissue. They have higher concentration of Acid Phosphates.
Admissibility of scientific evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What evidence can and can't be
counted in a court.
Tommie Lee Andrews - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅First US trial where DNA evidence was admissible.
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Study of human remains to help solve a crime.
Arson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Criminal offense of setting fire to property
Asphyxia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Suffocation
Assault - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A violent attack
Associative evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Seeks to establish an association between people
EMT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅emergency medical technician
DOA - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅dead on arrival
Carotid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅One of the two main arteries in the neck
ECG - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅electrocardiogram
Apneic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅not breathing
DI - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Death Investigator
Supine Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lying face up
Prone Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅lying face down
Lateral Position - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Lying on the left or right side
Rigor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Stiffening in the joints and muscles a few hours after death
Lividity/Livor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Blood pooling in body areas closest to the ground due
to gravity causing discoloration.
Anthropophagy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the eating of human flesh by animals/insects
Vitreous chemistry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Analyzing the fluid in the globe of the eye
, Algor mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Postmortem cooling of the body
subpoena - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅notice ordering someone to appear in court
Serum - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅fluid that blood is in without fibrinogen and platelets, which
disappear during clotting.
Fibrinogen - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a soluble protein present in blood plasma
Accelerant - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What is used to start and maintain a fire.
Acid Phosphate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An enzyme in many body tissues; used as screening
technique for semen and vaginal tissue. They have higher concentration of Acid Phosphates.
Admissibility of scientific evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅What evidence can and can't be
counted in a court.
Tommie Lee Andrews - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅First US trial where DNA evidence was admissible.
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Study of human remains to help solve a crime.
Arson - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Criminal offense of setting fire to property
Asphyxia - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Suffocation
Assault - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A violent attack
Associative evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Seeks to establish an association between people
