Bertino Forensics Chap 6: Fingerprints

What is an arch?

• Holds up a bridge

• a fingerprint pattern that resembles a bull's eye

• a fingerprint pattern where the ridge pattern begins on one side and leaves from the other side

• the center of a loop or whorl

True or False: Fingerprints are a result of oil and secretions that are transferred to a surface by the ridges of one’s finger.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: Fingerprints are considered to be a form of class evidence.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: It is necessary to obtain a full print from a crime scene in order for it to be used as evidence.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: Loops are the most common form of fingerprints.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: There is only one method that can be used to collect fingerprints from a crime scene.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: A fingerprint examiner looks for similar minutiae patterns between a suspect print and a crime scene print

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: Cyanoacrylate fuming (or glue fuming) is a fingerprint extracting method that uses chemical reactions to make prints visible.  

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Fingerprints are formed _______.

• after birth

• approximately 2 years after birth

• during pregnancy

• during birth

Which of the following type of fingerprint is shown below?

• whorl

• arch

• loop

• delta