Identification — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: The following fingerprint pattern represents: _____

Answer: Loops

Flashcard 2: The following fingerprint pattern represents: _____

Answer: Whorl

Flashcard 3: The following fingerprint pattern represents: _____

Answer: Arch

Flashcard 4: 30f11bd4ffc94508aa29637b66507828-ao-2

Answer: criteria for deep burial

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Flashcard 5: 30f11bd4ffc94508aa29637b66507828-ao-3

Answer: criteria for deep burial

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Flashcard 6: 30f11bd4ffc94508aa29637b66507828-ao-4

Answer: criteria for deep burial

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Flashcard 7: The _____ system is used for identification based on anthropometry

Answer: Bertillon

Flashcard 8: _____ markings are formed when a bullet passes through a barrel and the sides are marked by the rifling of the barrel

Answer: Primary

Flashcard 9: Latent fingerprints can be made visible by using chemicals such as _____, Cyanoacrylate and Silver nitrate

Answer: Ninhydrin

Flashcard 10: Tests for confirming cessation of circulation:_____ test (Ligature test)fingers fail to show congestion distal to a ligature applied at their base

Answer: Magnuss

Flashcard 11: Latent fingerprints can be made visible by using _____ spectrum light, white light or photoluminesence

Answer: UV

Flashcard 12: In early adulthood, _____ pubic symphsis method is most accurate for age estimation. In late adulthood, Lamendin technique of dental age estimation is the most accurate.

Answer: Suchey-Brookes

Flashcard 13: There are three main racial groups: _____, Mongoloid and Negroid.

Answer: Caucasian

Flashcard 14: _____ on the inner surface of barrel itself which are specific for that particular weapon are also seen on the bullet and are called secondary markings.

Answer: Irregularrities

Flashcard 15: Most accurate method for _____ estimation is the anatomical method developed by Fully

Answer: stature

Flashcard 16: _____ cross section of hair is found in Mongoloids race.

Answer: Circular

Flashcard 17: _____ is a method of identification through the examination of the unique details and characteristics found along the edges of individual fingerprint ridges.

Answer: Edgeoscopy

Flashcard 18: First finger print bureau was established in _____.

Answer: Kolkata

Flashcard 19: Which fingerprint patterns has no delta?_____

Answer: Plain arch

Flashcard 20: _____ are the most common fingerprint pattern encountered.

Answer: Loops

Flashcard 21: _____ is known as the father of poroscopy, edgeoscopy and ridgeology

Answer: Locard

Flashcard 22: Is primary or secondary markings used for bullet fingerprinting?_____

Answer: Both

Flashcard 23: Upto what depth can fingerprints be obtained?_____

Answer: 0.6mm

Flashcard 24: _____ photography makes old tattoos readily visible.

Answer: Infrared

Flashcard 25: _____ is an exclusory test, which consists of orienting the (live) photographs in the exact same position as the dead body to know the identity of the person

Answer: Photosuperimposition

Flashcard 26: Physical methods such as _____ can be used to visualize latent fingerprints

Answer: powders

Flashcard 27: Head scales are small in _____ snakes (poisonous/non poisonous)

Answer: poisonous

Flashcard 28: If the tattoo mark is absolutely invisible or has been removed artificially, the pigments used to produce them may be detected in the near by _____, by histological examination.

Answer: lymph gland

Flashcard 29: Estimation of age in adulthood >25 years is best made by degenerative changes in _____.

Answer: pubic symphysis