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Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
___________ is the application of scientific knowledge to resolve questions of civil and criminal law.
Forensic Science
Biomedical Science
Criminal Justice
___________combines the fields of biology and medicine to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health.
Forensic Science
Biomedical Science
Criminal Justice
The _________ is the person who has died in forensic investigations and medical cases.
Witness
Decedent
Medical Examiner
Why is it important to have precise measurements when investigating a case?
to come to a conclusion
to avoid miscalculations
so you can recreate the scene later
all of the above
Which crime scene search method is shown in the diagram?
zone
link
wheel
line
Which crime scene search method is shown in the diagram?
zone
link
line/strip
wheel/ray
Which are included in crime scene sketches? (choose all that apply)
time of death
scale
evidence
cause of death
location
What search method is being described: searchers begin at the center and move outward in straight lines.
What was found on Anna's shirt that could be evidence?
Flies
White powder
Strand of hair
red fibers
Which characteristic is important for the biomedical sciences professions?
collaborative
Critical thinker
ethical
all of these options are important
When you arrive at the crime scene, what should be done first?
Check the body for vital signs.
Secure the crime scene.
Start collecting evidence.
Interview any witnesses
What components should be included in the legend? Check all that apply.
Date
Time
Location
Temperature
Altitude
What was the best search method used to investigate Anna's crime scene?
grid method
spiral method
line (strip) method
Zone and/or Link method
Which of the following is NOT a search method used to sift through a crime scene?
Spiral Method
Wheel/Ray Method
Grid Method
List Method
A scale to show size
Legend with time and date
Key showing numbered evidence
Nothing!
What are the parts to processing a crime scene
collect evidence, sketch, interview, examine, photograph
photograph, measurements, the scene
collect evidence, sketch, interview, explain, photograph,
Secure scene, photograph, sketch, interview, collect evidence for analysis
The amount of breaths someone takes per min
Heart Rate
Skin Conductivity
Respiration Rate
Blood Pressure
The amount of times the heart beats per min
Heart Rate
Skin Conductivity
Blood Pressure
Respiration Rate
What is a polygraph test?
A test to see how well you can adapt and control your physiological responses in a high stress environment.
A test that determines your age.
A test that determines how much you weigh without stepping on a scale.
A test used to determine whether you are a truther or a liar.
What does a polygraph measure?
Detects eye movement
Detects lies from physiological responses
Detects the severity of an emotion
Detects differences in brain activity
When analyzing polygraph results, what is the investigator looking for?
The person's heart rate will increase when telling a lie.
The person's breathing rate will increase when telling a lie.
The person's breathing rate will decrease when telling a lie.
The results of the relevant question are different from the results of the control question.
Match the fingerprint.
Whorl
Loop
Arch
Helix
Match the fingerprint
Loop
Whorl
Helix
Arch
Match the fingerprint.
Loop
Whorl
Helix
Arch
Other than ridge patterns scientists also have to use another pattern to identify and match fingerprints. What are these patterns called?
Medulla
Keratin
Whorls
Minutiae
Which of the following is not a major component of blood in humans?
Epithelial cells
Red blood cells
White blood cells
Plasma
Platelets
Detection of sweat
Heart Rate
Skin Conductivity
Blood Pressure
Respiration Rate
The innermost layer of hair is the
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
The outermost layer of hair is the
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
The middle layer of hair is the
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
Contains natural pigment (melanin)
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
Core of hair
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
True or False: No two people have been found with the exact same fingerprint pattern.
True
False
The diameter of a blood drop can be used to estimate the
height blood fell.
blood type.
amount of blood.
direction of blood letting.
What is the purpose of presumptive testing?
Find out who the blood belongs to.
Find out the blood type of the blood sample.
Find out if a substance may be or is not blood.
Make the cotton swabs turn pretty colors.
The proteins found on the surface of RBCs that allow us to type blood as A, B, O or AB are called
Rh factors
Antigens
Antibodies
Aggluntates
What is produced by your body in response to foreign antigens, such as the wrong type of blood?
Agglutinates
Clotting factors
Antibodies
Phagocytes
Which blood type has Type B antibodies? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY
A
B
O
AB
If a person’s blood is exposed to anti-B serum and it clumps, but does not clump when exposed to anti-A serum, then the blood is
A
B
AB
O
The point of origin is ...
the location from which all measurements are taken.
a bird's eye view of a crime scene.
framing the scene with police tape.
documenting any evidence.
When completing a polygraph test, _______ data is taken by asking control questions to provide a reference point for all physiological responses during the test.
baseline
relevant
dependent
independent
Other than ridge patterns scientists also have to use another pattern to identify and match fingerprints. What are these patterns called?
Medulla
Keratin
Whorls
Minutiae
The force of blood on the vessels during contraction and relaxation of the heart.
Heart Rate
Skin Conductivity
Blood Pressure
Respiration Rate
1-collect evidence
2-conduct interviews
3-protect the crime scene
4-photograph the crime scene
What part of the hair is represented by letter C?
cuticle
cortex
medulla
root
What part of the hair is represented by letter B?
cuticle
cortex
medulla
root
What part of the hair is represented by letter A?
cuticle
cortex
medulla
root
Which method of searching a crime scene is BEST for an area that does NOT have any easily definable areas/ sections such as a river or the ocean
Link method
Spiral method
Line method
Zone method
What view do you want to use for your crime scene sketch?
View from window
View from door
View from the decedent's perspective
View from above
Which part of the hair is the right arrow pointing at?
Cortex
Cuticle
Medulla
split end
Which of the following steps to processing a crime scene is NOT performed by a crime scene investigator?
Photographing the scene
Sketching the scene
Interviewing witnesses
Collecting the evidence
Which of the following physiological responses are measured during a polygraph test? (check all that apply)
Respiration rate
Heart rate
Digestion rate
Blood pressure
Classify the print
Double Loop
Plain Whorl
Plain Arch
Central Pocket Loop
What is Loccard's Exchange Principle?
Perpetrators always leave evidence behind.
Every contact leaves a trace.
All touches leave evidence.
Long, violent confrontations leave evidence.
Identify the type of minutiae circled in the picture.
Ridge ending
Dot
Double Fork
Fork
Data such as phone, text, and internet use is called
digital forensics
trace forensics
confirmed forensics
speculative forensics
Is the fingerprint on the left (taken from a crime scene) a match for the one on the right (taken from a suspect)?
Confirmed match
No match
Is the fingerprint on the left (taken from a crime scene) a match for the one on the right (taken from a suspect)?
Confirmed match
No match
Is the fingerprint on the left (taken from a crime scene) a match for the one on the right (taken from a suspect)?
Confirmed match
No match
The Kastle-Meyer Test is a
negative test for DNA.
positive test for bacteria.
presumptive test for blood.
confirmatory test for blood.
An appropriate example of a positive control for an experiment that tests for COVID-19 is
blood.
a sample of a virus that causes the flu.
water.
a sample of the virus that causes COVID-19.
A swab was taken of a red stain on the floor of a crime scene. The result of a Kastle-Meyer test performed on this swab is shown here. What does this result indicate?
The result is negative, meaning that the stain is blood.
The result is positive, meaning that the stain may be blood.
The result is negative, meaning that the stain is not blood.
The result is positive, meaning that the stain is most certainly blood.
A presumptive test
usually is done first, is quick and indicates a possible positive result.
is always negative.
usually is done at the lab, takes longer and indicates a 100% certainty positive result.
usually is done first, is quick and indicates a 100% certainty positive result.
According to the chart shown here, which patient has blood type AB?
Patient 1
Patient 2
Patient 3
Patient 4
Agglutination also means
the antibodies that are circulating in blood.
clumping of red blood cells.
presumptive blood tests.
blood type.
Which blood type would most likely be considered a "universal donor" meaning that this blood type can be given to any person that needs blood?
type A
type AB
type B
type O
If a person has blood type A, what would be circulating in their blood?
*It is possible that there are more than one correct answer. You must select ALL the correct answers to get the point.
anti-A antibody
anti-B antibody
antigen A
antigen B
"+" means there is a positive result. "-" means there is a negative results.
Patient D has blood type
A
AB
O
B
According to the graph shown here, what is the independent variable of this experiment?
average blood diameter
blood spatter diameter
angle of blood spatter
height of blood dropped
Which component of blood makes up the majority (over 50%) of total blood volume?
erythrocytes
platelets
plasma
lymphocytes
A blood spatter analyst examines
the location of blood stains.
the distribution of blood pools.
the distribution of blood droplets.
the shape of blood stains and puddles.
Procedures should
only make sense to the people who are writing them.
be specific, with measurements, numbers and details.
be reproducible when other people perform them.
be more than 20 steps.
A stain such as the one shown here would most likely be classified as
falling droplet.
elongated tail.
radial spatter.
transfer.
Which blood spatter pattern represents a gravity spatter, dropped from a near 90 degree angle?
A
B
C
D
A fast or high velocity blood spatter stain is usually indicated by
a large, round pattern.
a smeared pattern.
a long tail.
a long oval shape.
Passive or gravity blood stain patterns would usually be caused by
a blunt force trauma injury.
a gunshot.
walking over a puddle of blood and leaving prints.
dropping straight down from a source of bleeding.
The purpose of plasma in blood is to
transports oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body.
fight infections.
make blood red.
acts as the major medium that holds, carries and transports all the other components of blood, including nutrients, antibodies, food, waste and other cells.
clot cuts and damaged blood vessels.
Thrombocytes are also known as
plasma.
platelets.
red blood cells.
white blood cells.
In the Kastle-Meyer presumptive blood test, which color indicates that blood is present?
Pink
Yellow
Blue
Gold
What happens when blood agglutinates (clots) in response to an anti-body?
Red blood cells are also called?
Leukocytes
Platelets
Erythrocytes
Lymphocytes
White blood cells are also called?
Leukocytes
Erythrocytes
Platelets
Lymphocytes
A substance on the surface of red blood cells that can trigger the production of antibodies
agglutinates
antigens
anemia
Rh Factor
Luminol would be considered a presumptive test for blood.
True
False
Blood typing cannot be used on dried blood.
True
False
Which of the following is the most common presumptive blood test that uses phenolphthalein which reacts with hemoglobin?
Luminol
Leucocrystal Violet
Kastle-Meyer
What is the blood type of #1?
A
B
AB
O
What is the blood type of #4?
A
B
AB
O
What is the blood type of #3?
A
B
AB
O
What is the blood type of #2?
A
B
AB
O
This protein (which comes from bacteria) searches for certain sequences in DNA cuts them at certain places
Restriction Enzyme
Molecular Cutters
PCR cleaver
Digesters
After DNA has been cut into pieces by restriction enzymes, it is considered to be...
snipped
amplified
digested
Cut up
EcoRI, HaeIII, HindIII are examples of...
nitrogen bases
digestion sites
DNA strands
restriction enzymes
This process produces millions of copies of a DNA sequence from a small amount of DNA.
Amplification
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
DNA Digestion
Transcription
Removing DNA from the nucleus of a cell is known as...
Endonuclease
Site Charging
DNA Amplification
DNA extraction
The location where restriction enzymes cut DNA is called a..
nucleotide
recognition site
phosphate
molecular clevage site
The location where restriction enzymes cut DNA is called a..
nucleotide
recognition site
phosphate
molecular clevage site
Check all the places from where you can collect DNA.
Red Blood Cells
Clothing
Bone
Hair with a follicle
Body Fluids
A person's unique individual DNA code is called a ...
identity sequence
code or organization
DNA Profile
nucleotide fingerprint
This laboratory procedure is known as
CLONING
gel electrophoresis
chromatography
use of a dichotomous key
In preparation for an electrophoresis procedure, enzymes are added to DNA in order to
convert the DNA into gel
cut the DNA into fragments
change the color of the DNA
produce longer sections of DNA
A student performed a gel electrophoresis experiment. The results are represented in the diagram
below. Compared to the fragments at the top of the gel, the fragments at the lower end are
larger, and move slower
larger, and move faster
smaller, and move faster
smaller, and move slower
How many fragments resulted from the cut above?
1
2
3
4
"bp" stands for...
Blood Pressure
Base Pair
Body Pressure
Body Pair
How many restriction sites appear in the picture?
1
2
3
4
How many restriction sites appear in the picture?
1
2
3
4
What makes up the SIDES of a DNA ladder?
nitrogen bases
sugars & phosphates
genes & chromosomes
RNA
What makes up the rungs (steps) of a DNA ladder?
sugars & phosphates
nitrogen bases
sugars
genes & chromosomes
How many copies of DNA are made after 1 cycle of PCR? (we did 30 cycles during the last block period).
1
2
1 million
4
Is DNA found inside a Red Blood Cell?
Yes
No
Sometimes
Where on a hair can DNA be extracted?
Follicle
Cuticle
Medulla
Cortex
Proteins which DNA winds around in order to compress into a small space are...
corpuscles
histones
nucleic acids
enzymes
DNA takes on this "X" shape when the cell is getting ready to divide.
chromosome
histone
chromatin
X cell
This type of cell that has organized membrane bound organelles inside of it.
prokaryotic
eukaryotic
red blood cells
hemoglobulin
These cells are unorganized and lack organelles with membranes.
prokaryotic cells
eukaryotic cells
white blood cells
potent cells
What is the purpose of a DNA ladder/standard in gel electrophoresis?
To determine the size of unknown DNA fragments
To visualize DNA fragments
To compare DNA sequences
To create a DNA profile
Which suspect is linked to the crime scene by this DNA analysis
Suspect A
Suspect C
Suspect D
Suspect B
ATG TGA CAG
Which RE's from above make blunt cuts?
Alul
HaeIII
BamHI
HindIII
EcorRI
Which RE's from above make sticky cuts?
Alul
HaeIII
BamHI
HindIII
EcorRI
How many bp's make up each fragment?
11
14
7
22
28
1. If the recognition sequence of the restriction enzyme HindIII is AAGCTT, then how many covalent bonds will be broken by the enzyme in the following DNA molecule?
1
2
3
4
What kind of cuts were made in the scenario above?
Blunt
Sticky
No cuts were made
Palindrome
Restriction enzymes produce random cuts along the DNA.
True
False
Blunt ends created by restriction enzymes are ends that do have an overhang
true
false
Which blood spatter pattern represents a gravity spatter, dropped from a near 90 degree angle?
A
B
C
D
There is a standard at either end of the gel. The 2nd column from the left is the crime scene DNA. Counting from the Left which suspect can we place at the crime scene? All remaining columns are suspects, no victim DNA here.
1 & 9
1, 3, 5, 7
Just 9
None of them
Which blood-spatter pattern is an example of a TRANSFER?
