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Forensic Evidence MCQ

_____ is an item of evidence from a known source that allows comparison from a suspect source.

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Correct Answer: Reference

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_____ is known as analyzes a sample and determines that it is either not a particular substance or that it probably is a particular substance.

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Correct Answer: Presumptive test

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_____ is defined as impression of a print left in a soft surface.

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Correct Answer: Plastic print

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_____ is defined as items such as goggles, helmets, and protective clothing that shield an individual from various hazards or injuries.

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Correct Answer: Personal protective equipment (PPE)

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_____ is Transfer of material from a print to the surface leaving an impression.

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Correct Answer: Patent print

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_____ is known as Computerized network available to law enforcement for the comparison of ballistic evidence.

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Correct Answer: National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN)

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_____ is visible print after powder is applied to the residue from oils of the hand.

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Correct Answer: Latent fingerprint

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_____ is known as narrow down the class characteristic that put an item into a group of objects to one emanating from a single source.

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Correct Answer: Individual characteristics

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_____ is defined as the application of science to criminal and civil matters of law.

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Correct Answer: Forensic science

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_____ is facts supporting the proof of a thing.

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Correct Answer: Evidence

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_____ is particulates left on the skin or clothing of someone discharging a firearm or in close proximity to one that has been fired.

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Correct Answer: Gunshot residue (GSR)

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_____ is known as a person whose experience, training, and education provide the basis for acceptance by a court to testify to his or her opinion on matters before the court.

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Correct Answer: Expert witness

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_____ is defined as two coiled chains of molecules that carry genetic functions of an organism.

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Correct Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

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_____ is defined as an individual (usually degreed) who applies scientific knowledge to analyze evidence.

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Correct Answer: Criminalist

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_____ is defined as allows comparison between a known sample and an unknown item of evidence.

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Correct Answer: Control specimen

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_____ is Software used to facilitate design

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Correct Answer: Computer-aided drawing (CAD), or computer-assisted drafting and design (CADD)

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_____ is known as searchable database of stored DNA profiles.

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Correct Answer: Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

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_____ is defined as those attributes of an item that place it within a broader group of objects.

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Correct Answer: Class characteristics

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_____ is defined as camera devices typically attached to the uniform of a police officer to gather evidence, enhance officer safety, and improve public relations through accountability of officer actions.

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Correct Answer: Body-worn camera (BWC)

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_____ is measurements of the human characteristics that serve to identify individuals.

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Correct Answer: Biometrics

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_____ is known as database that allows computer matching of unknown to known fingerprints.

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Correct Answer: Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)

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_____ is any substance used to increase the speed that a fire burns or spreads. The substance or mixture may be liquid or solid

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Correct Answer: Accelerant

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Which is a method used to document a crime scene?

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Correct Answer: A and b

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Which is NOT a search pattern discussed in the text?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The FBI created which database in 1990?

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Correct Answer: CODIS

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The ______’s National Crime Information Center was created in 1967 to aid local and state law enforcement in their efforts to identify and locate people and various items.

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Correct Answer: FBI

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______ began the first police laboratory in France in 1910.

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Correct Answer: Edmond Locad

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______, a French chemist, is credited with a good deal of work involving the effects of poison on the human body and specifically in death cases.

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Correct Answer: Mathieu Orfila

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______ systematized the shapes and patterns of the prints that allowed an organized classification method of using fingerprints for identification.

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Correct Answer: Sir Francis Galton

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Who introduced the anthropometry, the concept of identifying people by their unique body structure and features?

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Correct Answer: Alphonse Bertillon

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Sherlock Holmes introduced the concept of identifying people by their unique body structure and features.

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Correct Answer: False

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Field test is another name for a presumptive test.

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Correct Answer: True

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