Forensics TEST 1 Review

The application of science to criminal and civil law is known as ______.

• Expert Witness

• Locard’s Exchange Principle

• Scientific Method

• Forensic Science

A list of all people who came into possession of an item of evidence.

• The Chain Gang

• The Brady Bunch

• Chain of Custody

• Eye Witness

A process that occurs after death in which the body temperature continually cools until it reaches the ambient or room temperature.

• algor mortis

• autopsy

• livor mortis

• rigor mortis

Any and all objects that can establish that a crime has been committed or can provide a link between a crime and its victim or a crime and its perpetrator.

• Cross-contamination

• Substrate control

• Forensic Evidence

• Physical Evidence

A condition that occurs after death and results in the settling of blood in areas of the body closest to the ground.

• algor mortis

• autopsy

• livor mortis

• rigor mortis

The father of forensic toxicology.

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

• Francis Galton

• Mathieu Orfila

Devised the first scientific system of personal identification in 1879.

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Calvin Goddard

• Francis Galton

• Leone Lattes

Developed a procedure to determine blood type from dried bloodstains.

• Alfonse Bertillon

• Francis Galton

• Mathieu Orfila

• Leone Lattes

Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification.

• Alfonse Bertillon

• Francis Galton

• Leone Lattes

• Mathieu Orfila

Developed a procedure to determine blood type from dried bloodstains.

• Francis Galton

• Mathieu Orfila

• Leone Lattes

• Alphonse Bertillon