A part of the whorl or loop where the cores, deltas and ridges appear.

How many standard fingerprint patterns are there?

If the number of intervening lines is below three then this would have been?

The core and delta are also termed as ?

This is a canal-like impression or depression found between the ridges.

This refers to the study of fingerprints for the purpose of identification.

What is the science of palm print identification?

A 32 over 32 would indicate all patterns in primary classification.

A forensic chemist is tasked to examine the chemical nature and composition of the following EXCEPT:

A Dogmatic Principle which postulates that the fingerprint cannot be forged.

A fingerprint pattern in which the ridges form a sequence of spirals around core axes.

A kind of fingerprint which is found on soft and sticky objects such as wax and tape?

Fingerprints left on various surfaces at the crime scene which are not clearly visible.

In an accidental whorl type of pattern, what pattern is not included in the combination?

In the distribution of percentage in the fingerprint pattern, 35% is being represented by what group?

Does that appear as a tiny black line with white dots (called pores) in an inked finger impression?

It refers to all fingerprints left at the crime scene including those left accidentally or unconsciously.

The innermost ridges run parallel and surrounded to the pattern area are known as .

The introduction of Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) technology began due to the massive number of fingerprint cards manually processed by the FBI.

What are the depressed portions or canal structure of the friction skin found between ridges?

What are those that are sometimes referred to as papillary or epidermal ridges?

What fingers are rolled towards the body in taking a rolled impression?

What is the type of a pattern in which the looping or slanting ridges flow towards the little finger?

What type of a pattern possesses an angle, an upthrust, or two of the three basic characteristics of the loop?

When a ridge bifurcates, sending two ridges across the imaginary line, how is it counted?

Located along the undersides of the fingers, palms, toes, and soles appear corrugated skin structure known to the biologist as

Located along the undersides of the fingers, palms, toes, and soles appear corrugated skin structure known to the fingerprint examiner as

In 1905, the Stratton brothers were convicted after they were charged with murdering a Farrow couple. This accomplishment was a work of?

He first used fingerprints on native contracts in Hooghly district in Jangipur, India.

It is said that the fingerprints of a person will be carried from the womb to the tomb. What principle greatly describes the phrase?

The first conviction in the Philippine Case which gives recognition to the science of fingerprint?

Ridge forms in the person’s fingers and feet during its infants stage which usually starts:

The following are considerations used for the identification of a loop except one:

What is the rule when there is a choice between a bifurcation and other type of delta found in the fingerprint?

Damage in the friction skin can be temporary or permanent. Such permanency in the damage may cause scar or termed as?

It is placed just to the left of the primary in the classification formula. Where whorls appear in the thumbs following the whorl tracings sub secondary classification.

What type of pattern is that which could be found on the lower box of the fingerprint card having a delta and core with a recurving ridge flowing towards the no. 6 fingers?

Which of the following best describes a loop pattern?

All BUT one, are the elements of a whorl pattern?

The Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly District in India, first used fingerprints on contracts with the natives. He is also known as the father of Chiroscopy.

Who discovered the two main layers of the friction skin (Epidermis and Dermis) and to whom one of the thin layers of the friction skin was named.

If the same digits of both hands are missing, the impressions are held to be .

A person committing a crime would always leave something behind and may be considered as an integral part in the identification of the suspect especially if it is a “Latent Print”. This prints are made through the;

Fingerprints help to positively identify people because of the principle that:

What type of a pattern consists of two or more deltas, one or more ridge forming a complete circuit and when an imaginary line is drawn from left delta to right delta it touches or crosses the circuiting ridge/s considered as the most common type of whorl?

What system of identification used earlier than the fingerprint system, and is made by measuring various bony structures of the human body developed by Alphonse Bertillion?

What fingerprint pattern has slope or downward flow of the innermost sufficient recurve towards the thumb of the radius bone of the hand of origin.

What basic principle is involved in personal Identification which states that the greater the number of similarity or difference the greater the probability for the identity or non identity to be conclusive?

Symbolized by letter W in the fingerprint classification, this fingerprint pattern have two deltas in which at least one ridge makes a turn through one complete circuit.

Which part of a camera is used in focusing the light from the subject?

The circular “dome-like” image –

  The simplest camera is a       , which consists of a box with a small hole in one of its sides.

  What type of camera is ideal for police photography?

What is referred to as the effective length of time a camera’s shutter is open?

Which of the following supports the entire unit of the enlarger, which usually holds the easel that carries the photographic paper?

It is the ability of an object to convert one wavelength to another as long as the active energy source is irradiating the object.

A type of a lens that would make an object to be exaggeratedly close to the photographer and is ideal in stakeout surveillance photography.

A distance at which lens of a camera is focused with a given particular diaphragm opening which will give the maximum depth of field is-

It is that part of the camera which controls the passage of light reaching the sensitized material? It compared to the eyelid of the human eye.

Light rays from the subject on the lens axis passing through off-center areas of the lens focus at different distances from the light rays that pass directly through the center of the lens.

Lens aberration in which light of different wavelengths is focused at different distances behind the lens. It can be corrected by combining different types of glass lens.

In photography using microprism, the image on focus will usually shatter off an out of focus image and when it is exactly in focus the prisms seem to disappear. These microprisms are primarily found on:

A type of camera in which the lens and shutter are mounted to the body by means of accordion-pleated bellows, which can be folded into the camera for ease of carrying.

A.  accordion camera

This results in star images near the outer edge of the viewing field seeming to have comet-style tails scattering radially away from its optical axis.

A device made of thin overlapping metal leaves within a lens or camera which can be adjusted to specific apertures of f-stops to control the amount of light that strikes the film.

This effect causes images to be spherized, which means the edges of images look curved and bowed to the human eye.

To have a more sharp image flash exposure is encouraged and it can be computed. What if the guide number is 220 in a distance of 10 ft what will be the exact aperture?

Modern photographic papers are basically composed of a light sensitive coating on a paper base which is particularly suspended on what substance?

The photographer in crime scene investigation has to get as many photographs as he can. The first shot that he should make just after reaching the crime scene is the house where the crime of murder was committed to one of its ten rooms. In getting the façade of the house, what lens should he utilize?

When photographing the corpse in the scene, several pictures of the conditions at the time of discovery including the environment of the corpse must be taken from various photographic directions in order to:

A black and white films possess several characteristics such as speed, spectral and granularity. The speed will be referring to the sensitivity of the film to light, granularity is the graininess and the spectral is the sensitivity to:

In outdoor photography, there will be some instances that the presence of light is too much that produces a dilemma to the photographer. What do you think is the best way to do this?

Jane was taking a snapshot and expecting it to be sharp but an alteration happened to the expected image because it can be seen in two viewpoints. What is that phenomenon?

In the modernization of photography, DSLR cameras almost dominated the market because of their great features that are very useful in commercial photo shoots. What does a DSLR mean?

Used for contact printing, the size of the positive print is the same as the size of the negative used. Sensitivity to light is low and gives blue-black tones when properly developed.

Crime scene photographs should be taken in ways that should have meet the eye of an average observer, hence it should be:

When was the birth year of photography?

The combination of Blue and Green color of light which produced what secondary color of light?

It is referred to as the measure of distance between two (2) successive crest or through of wave and it is expressed in either Millimicron (Nanometer) or

The following are purposes of hair examination, EXCEPT;

It is a type of film according to spectral sensitivity wherein the film is sensitive to UV light up to the green light only.

It is used in chemical analysis and in curing and hardening of different items for industrial purposes

It is an artificial light described as containing wire filaments that connect them which sustains the electrical charge that combines them.

What refers to the film and photographic paper that is composed of emulsion containing silver halides and suspended in gelatin?

  It is a part of the sensitized material which is designed to hold back the light and prevents halation.

What is the timing of the camera shutter and the flash so that when the shutter is fully opened, that’s the time that the flash will yield its highest peaks of illumination called?

Which of the following is TRUE about the shutter speed of the camera?

It is a stage of the chemical process in which it is being done to reduce the silver halides to form the image.

When one uses a photographic filter in taking a photograph, he is actually        light rays or color from the light to reach the film.

It is the main fixing agent that dissolves unexposed silver halides.

What is the theory of light which opposes the wave stating that light has its effect by the very small particles such as electrons?

What emulsion speed indicator is expressed in an arithmetic form?

It is the process of eliminating unwanted portions of the negative during the enlarging process.

The distance of recognition in broad daylight of a person who is almost a stranger?

A type of shutter in which it opens from the center and is placed between the lens

What lens system of the camera reflects the light passing the lens and mirror making the image possible to be viewed from the viewfinder?

Laser light is also referred to as                ?

Digital Cameras at present has LCD which means          .

What is the correct sequence of sensitivity of the three emulsion layers of color film?

The condition of firing whereby the cartridge took several seconds before it discharges.

The following conditions are NOT attributed to external ballistics, EXCEPT:

A unit of the bore instrument in shot gun determined by the number of solid lead balls of the bore diameter obtainable to a pound lead.

It refers to the parabola-like flight of the projectile from the time it leaves the muzzle until it hits the target. It is also described as the actual curve path taken by a bullet during its.

A fired bullet with six lands and grooves twisted to the right is fired from the barrel of a firearm with identical class characteristics as that of:

Power of bullet that results in the instantaneous death of the victim.

An arbitrary index of the quickness that burning propellant changes into gas.

Is the curve taken by the bullet while in flight.

This is the farthest distance at which the bullet's path stays within the critical zone.

The bullet’s design provides the most braking from shape alone, is not jacketed, and used in low velocity handguns often for target practice.

A field of forensic ballistics that includes the expert examination of firearms, bullets and shells that would determine whether or not a particular bullet is fired from a particular firearm, and whether or not a particular shell is loaded and ejected from the same firearm and it is conducted in a forensic laboratory. What phase of forensic ballistics best describes the statement?

The first priming mixture was discovered by Alexander Forsyth, and it is composed originally of?

It controls the flight of projectiles fired from some smoothbore weapons and is used on most aerial bombs

Are meant for those characteristics which are being determined only after the firearm was already been manufactured and they are the product of machine imperfections and some later due to the used of the firearms

It refers to the measure of the distance advance by the rifling in order to make a complete turn inside the barrel

Unstable rorating motion of the bullet while in flight or the rotation of the nose of the bullet away from the line of flight.

A short barrel rifle, having a barrel not longer than 22 inches and it is designed to fire a single shot through a rifled-bore.

The standard ingredients of black powder are the following, EXCEPT?

The use of expanding, deformable bullets in wartime have been prohibited first during the .

The barrel is usually composed of what type of metal?

In the terminal ballistics, It refers to the size of the bullet groupings on the target.

  It is a barrel construction of a shotgun in which there is a diminishing bore diameter towards its muzzle.

The caliber of the smoothbore firearm case measured by?

It is a type of firearm designed to fire several loads (shot) in one loading.

These are devices that are not really designed to become a weapon but because of its mechanism that is the same as those in the firearm they are already considered as miscellaneous guns.

  It is a classification of document in which it is issued by a public official in the exercise of the functions of his office.

It is the combination of the basic shape and designs of letters and the writing instrument which was taught in school.

Mr. A, a Chief of the Intelligence Division of PNP, will sign a “Confidential” file as an approval regarding the operation against the notorious drug syndicate in their locality. What class of signature does Mr. A execute?

It is a specimen of writing executed deliberately with an attempt of changing its usual writing habits to hide his/her identity

This movement may be categorized into hesitating and painful due to weakness and illness.

It is a name of a person which represents an identification in a document and serves as an acknowledgement of the document signed.

The rounded inner part of an upper curve, bend or crook of a letter.

It is an interruption in the stroke caused by the immediate removal of the writing pen from the surface of the paper.

A person who can write either with his left or right hand is called–

This are usually the result from contact with the other writings.

A kind of erasure by using a rubber eraser, sharp knife, razor blade or picking instrument.

It is one that contains some changes either as addition or deletion.

A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to characterize known material or the standards.

Which of these refers to the art of determining the character or disposition of person by analyzing his handwriting?

Is a neurological condition in which someone has difficulty turning their thoughts into written language for their age and ability to think, despite exposure to adequate instruction and education.