Physical Evidence Quiz

When evidence can only be associated with a group and never with a single source, that evidence is said to possess...

• class categories

• class characteristics

• group categories

• group characteristics

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-8

Properties of evidence that can be attributed to a common source with an extremely high degree of certainty is/are

• comparison characteristics

• referent characteristics

• class characteristics

• individual characteristics

The relevance given to physical evidence in a courtroom is left to...

• the expert witnesses or criminalists who are testifying

• the laboratory analysts who are interpreting the results of their tests

• the trier of the facts, usually a jury

• the prosecutor, who instructs the jury as to how much weight to assign to an article of evidence

Which of the following is an example of class physical evidence?

• tire impression

• bullet cartridge

• skin scrapings

• shredded document

Which of the following is an example of individual physical evidence?

• commercial potting soil

• mass produced synthetic fiber

• sample of custom auto paint job

• new tire impressions

True or False: A database applicable to to DNA profiling is PDQ.

• True

• False

The forensic database FISH is used for analyzing ________________.

• heredity

• handwriting samples

• hair samples

• heavy metals

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is at the heart the NIBIN?

• AFIS

• IAFIS

• CODIS

• IBIS

How many databases make up the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 1

Fill in the blanks: As the number of different objects linking an individual to a crime _________, the probability of involvement _________________.

• decreases; increases

• increases; increases

• decreases; decreases

• increases; decreases