FRSC 1011 Exam Questions with
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Forensic Science requires... - ✔✔development of principles and techniques to identify and
compare physical evidence
Marcello Malpighi - ✔✔First notes on finger print ridges
Henry Faulds - ✔✔First to suggest fingerprints for ID purposes gave to Darwin who gave to
Galton
Alphonse Bertillon (1879) - ✔✔Anthropometry - first system fro personal Identification
Hans Gross - ✔✔advocated for the application of science to the law
Carl Wilhelm - ✔✔detection of arsenic in corpses
Valetin Ross - ✔✔detecting small amounts of arsenic in stomach
Mathieu Orfila - ✔✔Father of Toxicology
Conan Doyle - ✔✔considerable influence on popularizing scientific methods of cime detetction
(Sherlock Holmes)
Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔Blood Typing
Leon Lattes - ✔✔Blood Typing on Dry Specimens
,Osborn - ✔✔Document Examination
Walter C. McCrone - ✔✔Microscopy to forensics
Calvin Goddard - ✔✔Fire arms examination
Alec Jeffereys - ✔✔DNA Typing
Crime Laboratories Canada - ✔✔(1) 6 RCMP Regional Laboratories
(2) CFS in TO
(3) Institute of Legal Medincine and Police Science in Montreal
13 OPP Forensic Identification Labs in ON
Scientific Method (defintion) - ✔✔compares evidence obtained by investigators with
observable physical findings discovered at the crime scene, in the crime laboratory, or in the
autopsy suite.
Scientific Method Process - ✔✔1. Formulate Question
2. Formulate Hypothesis
3. Test Hypothesis
4. Upon validation, becomes suitable as scientific evidence
Frye v. United States - ✔✔General Acceptance
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharamceuticals - ✔✔General Acceptance is not absolute standard
,Lay Witness - ✔✔factual information, no personal opinions
Expert Witness - ✔✔evaluate evidence and express opinions
At the command centre of a crime scene - ✔✔1. receive tasks
2. store equipment
3. discuss
4. communicate
line/strip search pattern - ✔✔1 or 2 investigators
Grid Search pattern - ✔✔2 or more investigators
Film Photography - ✔✔consists of a sheet of silver halide grains which "expose" when exposed
to light
Film speed - ✔✔measure of the light gathering capacity of the film
Digital photoraphy - ✔✔a light sensitive microchip captures light on each of millions of tiny
picture elements called pixels
2 types of cameras - ✔✔Single lens reflex (SLR)
Digitial Single Lens Refelx (DSLR)
Normal Lens - ✔✔focal length 50-55mm; used for most photographs
Telephoto Lens - ✔✔focal length 100 mm+; used for magnifying
, Wide-angle Lens - ✔✔Focal lenght 35mm; used to show more than normal lens
Macro Lens - ✔✔Focal length less than 50mm; used for highly detailed close ups
Multipurpose Lens - ✔✔focal length 28-80 mm; used to take normal, wide angle & telephoto
photographs
Aperture - ✔✔measure of the diameter of the opening of the diaphragm which allows light to
reach the film or microchip
Shutter speed - ✔✔length of time that the film or microchip is exposed to light
Depth of Field - ✔✔amount of area in the foreground and background of an object in focus
auto mode - ✔✔automatically selects f-stop and shutter speed
sports mode - ✔✔captures subjects in motion using higher shutter speed
night mode - ✔✔uses slower shutter speed to gather lots of light
Landscape mode - ✔✔selects higher f-stop to improve depth of field
Portrait mode - ✔✔lower f-stop to decrease the depth of field and make the subject stand out
barrier filters - ✔✔block one specific wave length (color) of light from reaching the film or
microchip making areas of that color appear lighter in the photograph
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Forensic Science requires... - ✔✔development of principles and techniques to identify and
compare physical evidence
Marcello Malpighi - ✔✔First notes on finger print ridges
Henry Faulds - ✔✔First to suggest fingerprints for ID purposes gave to Darwin who gave to
Galton
Alphonse Bertillon (1879) - ✔✔Anthropometry - first system fro personal Identification
Hans Gross - ✔✔advocated for the application of science to the law
Carl Wilhelm - ✔✔detection of arsenic in corpses
Valetin Ross - ✔✔detecting small amounts of arsenic in stomach
Mathieu Orfila - ✔✔Father of Toxicology
Conan Doyle - ✔✔considerable influence on popularizing scientific methods of cime detetction
(Sherlock Holmes)
Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔Blood Typing
Leon Lattes - ✔✔Blood Typing on Dry Specimens
,Osborn - ✔✔Document Examination
Walter C. McCrone - ✔✔Microscopy to forensics
Calvin Goddard - ✔✔Fire arms examination
Alec Jeffereys - ✔✔DNA Typing
Crime Laboratories Canada - ✔✔(1) 6 RCMP Regional Laboratories
(2) CFS in TO
(3) Institute of Legal Medincine and Police Science in Montreal
13 OPP Forensic Identification Labs in ON
Scientific Method (defintion) - ✔✔compares evidence obtained by investigators with
observable physical findings discovered at the crime scene, in the crime laboratory, or in the
autopsy suite.
Scientific Method Process - ✔✔1. Formulate Question
2. Formulate Hypothesis
3. Test Hypothesis
4. Upon validation, becomes suitable as scientific evidence
Frye v. United States - ✔✔General Acceptance
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharamceuticals - ✔✔General Acceptance is not absolute standard
,Lay Witness - ✔✔factual information, no personal opinions
Expert Witness - ✔✔evaluate evidence and express opinions
At the command centre of a crime scene - ✔✔1. receive tasks
2. store equipment
3. discuss
4. communicate
line/strip search pattern - ✔✔1 or 2 investigators
Grid Search pattern - ✔✔2 or more investigators
Film Photography - ✔✔consists of a sheet of silver halide grains which "expose" when exposed
to light
Film speed - ✔✔measure of the light gathering capacity of the film
Digital photoraphy - ✔✔a light sensitive microchip captures light on each of millions of tiny
picture elements called pixels
2 types of cameras - ✔✔Single lens reflex (SLR)
Digitial Single Lens Refelx (DSLR)
Normal Lens - ✔✔focal length 50-55mm; used for most photographs
Telephoto Lens - ✔✔focal length 100 mm+; used for magnifying
, Wide-angle Lens - ✔✔Focal lenght 35mm; used to show more than normal lens
Macro Lens - ✔✔Focal length less than 50mm; used for highly detailed close ups
Multipurpose Lens - ✔✔focal length 28-80 mm; used to take normal, wide angle & telephoto
photographs
Aperture - ✔✔measure of the diameter of the opening of the diaphragm which allows light to
reach the film or microchip
Shutter speed - ✔✔length of time that the film or microchip is exposed to light
Depth of Field - ✔✔amount of area in the foreground and background of an object in focus
auto mode - ✔✔automatically selects f-stop and shutter speed
sports mode - ✔✔captures subjects in motion using higher shutter speed
night mode - ✔✔uses slower shutter speed to gather lots of light
Landscape mode - ✔✔selects higher f-stop to improve depth of field
Portrait mode - ✔✔lower f-stop to decrease the depth of field and make the subject stand out
barrier filters - ✔✔block one specific wave length (color) of light from reaching the film or
microchip making areas of that color appear lighter in the photograph
