PBS Unit 1.1 Vocab

Specialized clothing or equipment, worn by an employee for protection against infectious materials

• Forensic Science
• Biomedical Science
• Forensic Science
• Personal Protective Equipment

The application of scientific knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law.

• Biomedical Science
• Forensic Science
• Negative Control
• Positive Control

The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.

• Biomedical Science
• Forensic Science
• Control Group
• Negative Control

A research study conducted to determine the effect that one variable has upon another variable.

• Biomedical Science
• Forensic Science
• Experiment
• Control Group

Logical patterns are connected between the crime scene activity and the places additional evidence could be found as a result.

• Grid Method
• Strip Method
• Zone Method
• Link Method

Gathering evidence using two sets of parallel patterns of search

• Line Method
• Link Method
• Grid Method
• Zone Method

Gathering evidence in smaller scenes starting at one point and travel outward along many lines of observation.

• Ray Method
• Spiral Method
• Zone Method
• Grid Method

Collection of evidence in large areas with no barriers, either beginning at one point and working outward or the outer-edge working inward.

• Wheel Method
• Spiral Method
• Zone Method
• Ray Method

Collection of evidence in small areas for searching as a team.

• Grid Method
• Spiral Method
• Zone Method
• Line Method

The variable that is varied or manipulated by the researcher.

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Negative Control
• Positive Control