Fingerprint Warm-up #1 (10/10-10/12)

Last updated 8 months ago
7 questions
Required
3

Classify the following items as latent, patent, or plastic fingerprints.

  • fingerprints left on a door handle when entering someone's home
  • a bloody fingerprint left at a crime scene
  • someone places their hand in wet cement, leaving a detailed impression
  • fingerprints left on a plastic water bottle after taking a drink
  • rubbing your finger on graphite and then leaving a visible print on a piece of paper
  • Mr. Ly's 2 year old nephew pressed his finger into some Play-Doh leaving an impression.
  • latent
  • patent
  • plastic
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2

Drag the fingerprints to their respective categories.

  • loop
  • arch
  • whorl
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1

IAFIS is a California fingerprint data base of more than 76 million criminal fingerprints and criminal histories.

1

Match the minutiae patterns to their correct names.

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
bifurcation
enclosure
island ridge
trifurcation
ridge ending
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1

Identical twins have identical fingerprints.


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1

How many whorls does this person have?

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1

Which finger(s) is/are the whorls on?