Fingerprint vocabulary

AFIS

• Automated Fingerprint Identification System-

• Automatic Fingerprint isolation

  Series

• Actual Frequency Information System

• Alternate Forensic Induced Science

What are the 3 types of fingerprints?

• Latent, whorl, and patent

• Arch, loop, and patent

• Arch, whorl, and loop

• Visible and invisible

No two people have the same fingerprint

• True

• False

The classification and retrieval of fingerprints by computers.

• Iodine fuming

• AFIS

• PODIS

• AIPB

A system of identification of individuals by measurement of parts of the body, developed by Alphonse Bertillon.

• minutiae

• Ninhydrin

• anthropometry

• Bertillionolgy

A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern originates from one side of the print and leaves from the other side.

• Arch

• Loop

• whorl

• delta

A center of a loop or whorl.

• Arch

• Delta

• Loop

• Core

A triangular ridge pattern with ridges that go in different directions above and below a triangle.

• Arch

• Loop

• Delta

• Whorl

A fingerprint pattern in which the ridge pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin

• Arch

• Loop

• Delta

• Whorl

The combination of details in the shapes and positions of ridges in fingerprints that make each unique; also called ridge characteristics.

• Arches

• latent fingerprints

• Minutiae

• Whorls