Physical Evidence and Fingerprinting

True or False: Most items of physical evidence retrieved at crime scenes can be linked definitively to a single person or object

• True

• False

Physical evidence is one of the most common types of evidence found at a crime scene.

• False

• True

Who made this comment on the need for physical evidence:

“This is evidence that does not forget. It is not confused by the excitement of the moment. It is not absent because human witnesses are. It is factual evidence. Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot perjure itself, it cannot be wholly absent.”

• Mathieu Orfila

• R.F. Borkenstein

• Edmond Locard

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

Which of the following is NOT an example of impressions evidence?

• Fingerprints

• Shoe prints

• Bite marks

• Hair fibers

True or false: fingerprints should be collected before other, less fragile evidence.

• True

• False

Which fingerprint pattern is this?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Spiral

Which fingerprint pattern is this?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Spiral

True or False: Identical twins have identical fingerprints.

• True

• False

According to _____’_ Exchange Principle, whenever two objects come into contact with each other, an exchange of material occurs.

What are the lines on your fingers that leave impressions called?

• follicle

• ridges

• print marks

• roots