FRSC 1011 Midterm Exam Questions
with Verified Answers
Forensic science - ✔✔application of science to criminal + civil laws
How many forensic science disciplines are there? - ✔✔There are 11 disciplines recognized by
the American Academy of Forensic Science
CSI Effect - ✔✔the exaggeration of forensic investigations by the mass media through popular
shows like "CSI" makes everyone (particularity the jury) think that DNA evidence will be found
at every scene
Yi Yu Ji - ✔✔- The earliest record of a forensic investigation in 3rd century china
- Coroner performed tests of dead pigs to determine if the victim was dead before or after the
fire
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (toxicology) - ✔✔1st successful test for arsenic in a corpse
Valenin Ross (toxicology) - ✔✔made advancement to Scheele's method—tests for small
amounts of arsenic in the lining of the stomach
Mahieu Orfila (toxicology) - ✔✔father of toxicology + published first text on the detection of
poisons + their effects on animal
James Marsh (toxicology) - ✔✔1st uses of toxicology evidence in a victim's body—also testifies
Alphonse Bertillion - ✔✔father of criminal identification who developed anthropometry
, anthropometry - ✔✔a series of bodily measurements as a system for person identification
Marcello Malpighi - ✔✔1st recorded notes on classifications of fingerprints (loops, spirals,
ridges)
Francis Henry Galton - ✔✔1st textbook that outlined the classification + filing fingerprints
Hans Gross - ✔✔published first textbook that detailed current forensic disciplines + how to
apply them to investigations
Edmond Locard - ✔✔established 1st working crime lab
Locard's Exchange Principle - ✔✔when two objects come into contact w/ each other, there is a
transfer of materials between them
William Nichol - ✔✔inventor of the polarizing microscope
Henri-Louis Bayard - ✔✔1st procedure for microscopic detection of sperm
Walter McCrone - ✔✔leading figure in applied microscopy
Calvin Goddard - ✔✔refined techniques of firearm examinations using a comparative
microscope
Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔discovered the ABO category system of blood
Leone Lattes - ✔✔developed a procedure to determine blood type from a dried bloodstain
with Verified Answers
Forensic science - ✔✔application of science to criminal + civil laws
How many forensic science disciplines are there? - ✔✔There are 11 disciplines recognized by
the American Academy of Forensic Science
CSI Effect - ✔✔the exaggeration of forensic investigations by the mass media through popular
shows like "CSI" makes everyone (particularity the jury) think that DNA evidence will be found
at every scene
Yi Yu Ji - ✔✔- The earliest record of a forensic investigation in 3rd century china
- Coroner performed tests of dead pigs to determine if the victim was dead before or after the
fire
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (toxicology) - ✔✔1st successful test for arsenic in a corpse
Valenin Ross (toxicology) - ✔✔made advancement to Scheele's method—tests for small
amounts of arsenic in the lining of the stomach
Mahieu Orfila (toxicology) - ✔✔father of toxicology + published first text on the detection of
poisons + their effects on animal
James Marsh (toxicology) - ✔✔1st uses of toxicology evidence in a victim's body—also testifies
Alphonse Bertillion - ✔✔father of criminal identification who developed anthropometry
, anthropometry - ✔✔a series of bodily measurements as a system for person identification
Marcello Malpighi - ✔✔1st recorded notes on classifications of fingerprints (loops, spirals,
ridges)
Francis Henry Galton - ✔✔1st textbook that outlined the classification + filing fingerprints
Hans Gross - ✔✔published first textbook that detailed current forensic disciplines + how to
apply them to investigations
Edmond Locard - ✔✔established 1st working crime lab
Locard's Exchange Principle - ✔✔when two objects come into contact w/ each other, there is a
transfer of materials between them
William Nichol - ✔✔inventor of the polarizing microscope
Henri-Louis Bayard - ✔✔1st procedure for microscopic detection of sperm
Walter McCrone - ✔✔leading figure in applied microscopy
Calvin Goddard - ✔✔refined techniques of firearm examinations using a comparative
microscope
Karl Landsteiner - ✔✔discovered the ABO category system of blood
Leone Lattes - ✔✔developed a procedure to determine blood type from a dried bloodstain
