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Fiery Fingerprint Fantasma A

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26 questions

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Fingerprints can be altered _____.

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Secretions of the skin _____.

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The ridge count, _____, helps to distinguish one print from another.

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When technology is used to analyze fingerprints, _____.

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Silver nitrate, used to visualize latent fingerprints, _____.

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The fingerprints on a completed ten card (shown below) are _____ fingerprints.

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Select all of the following methods that can be used to develop a latent fingerprint.

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Police investigate a suspect in a home-invasion. Eyewitnesses provide details to the sketch artist. Interviews with neighbors confirm that a person consistent with the suspect's description was seen in the neighborhood on several occasions. A surveillance camera on a neighbor's porch provides an image of the suspect walking on the sidewalk just a few hundred feet from the crime scene. Finally, a DNA test indicates a very high probability that the suspect was at the crime scene. The one dissenting factor in the case is that the fingerprint identification of the fingerprints found at the scene is different than the fingerprint identification of the suspect.

The evidence would make sense if the suspect _____.

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The first fingerprint identification system, _____, was developed in 1980 and used by individual states.

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During the __________, fingerprint ridge patterns are formed in the basal layer of the skin.

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Fingerprints are considered to be ________ evidence. Select all that apply.

A suspect was brought into the station and fingerprinted using a 10 card as seen below:

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What is the suspect's primary identification? _______ 

Required

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People can have the same primary identification numbers.

Required

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Primary classification is a form of individual evidence.

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Assume a right hand.

What type of specific ridge pattern is present?_______ 

1

What type of specific ridge pattern?_______ 

1

What type of specific ridge pattern?_______ 

1

What type of specific ridge pattern? _______ 

1

What type of specific ridge pattern?_______ 

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What type of specific ridge pattern?_______ 

2

Drag the fingerprints to their respective ridge pattern categories.

loop
arch
whorl

2.5

Match the minutiae patterns to their correct names.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
		bifurcation
		enclosure
		island ridge
		trifurcation
		ridge ending

1

__________ are easily visible and therefore do not require dusting to document.

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Iodine fuming is one method of developing latent fingerprints that involves reacting iodine vapors with _______ present in latent fingerprints.

1

The cyanoacrylate method of developing latent fingerprints involves heating superglue to produce fumes that react with which of the following biomolecules? (Select 3).

4

In our CSI episode from last week, CSI Nick Stokes utilized superglue fumes to develop fingerprints on a rental vehicle involved in a traffic accident.

a) Describe the process of using superglue to develop latent fingerprints. Mention the types of biomolecules in your answer.

b) Explain why this was not very helpful during the investigation utilizing what we learned about Locard's Principle of Exchange and circumstantial evidence.