Fingerprint

How many deltas are found in whorls

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

If a fingerprint is pressed into thick clotted blood, the pattern that will be created is called

• patent

• latent

• plastic

• hardened

The study of the uniqueness of the raised fingerprint structures is called

• ridgeology

• fingerprint analysis

• minutiae identification

• fingerprintology

The minutia that looks like a sideways letter Y is a

• bridge

• spur

• bifurcation

• short ridge

Iodine fuming is ideal for obtaining fingerprints from porous surfaces such as

• glass

• plastic

• paper

• metal

Ninhydrin spray is used on porous surfaces and changes fingerprints to purple when it reacts with

• fats/oils

• water

• DNA

• amino acids

The best way to preserve a fingerprint is to

• freeze it

• wax coat it

• photograph it

• wrap it in plastic

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

• Whorl

• Arch

• Loop

a center of a loop on a fingerprint

• Delta

• Minutiae

• Core

• Loop

a triangular ridge pattern on a fingerprint.

• Loop

• Arch

• Delta

• Whorl