Fingerprint Review

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Plain arch

• Tented arch

• Inverted arch

• Pyramid arch

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Impossible to identify

What type of fingerprint is shown?

• Arch

• Loop

• Whorl

• Impossible to identify

Forensic examiners look for the presence of a __________ and delta(s).

• Short ridge

• Bifurcation

• Core

• Crossover

Which of the following is NOT one of the three principles of fingerprints?

• A fingerprint is an individual characteristic

• A fingerprint pattern will remain unchanged for the life of an individual

• Fingerprints have general characteristic ridge patterns to identify them

• Identical twins have the exact same fingerprints

Covering fingers, toes, feet, & palms, fingerprints (i.e. prints) are essentially small what?

• Ridges

• Oils

• Spikes

• Gluons

For each fingerprint shown, the RED SQUARE identifies what fingerprint ridge characteristic?

• Bifurcation

• Core

• Delta

• Eye

Which of the following ridge characteristics can be defined as one ridge dividing into two?

• Island or short ridge

• Eye or enclosure

• Bifurcation or fork

• Double bifurcation

When minutiae on two different prints match, these are called points of similarity or points of identification.  At this point, how many points of identification are required according to the international standard for a match between two fingerprints?

• 16

• 12

• 8

• There is no international standard

____________ is the study of the uniqueness of friction ridge structures and their use for personal identification.

• Ridgeology

• Forensics

• Fingerprintology

• Cartography