Week 4: Fingerprint Examination
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- Q1
What aged system, from the 1880s, used a series of 11 measurements as a form of identification prior to fingerprinting for criminal records?
Anthropology/Osteology
Entomology/Insect Biology
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Anthropometry/Bertillonage
30s - Q2
What famous case from the 1880s involved a man that was mistaken for another inmate after their measurements and photo were alike? This case essentially ended the use of anthropometry.
Arthur and Arturus Dent Case
Gene and Jean East Case
Emmet and Emerson Brown Case
Will and William West Case
30s - Q3
Why should visual identifications and photo ID comparisons be followed up by confirmatory methods such as fingerprinting?
People may be severely injured and their appearances may look different from their known photos.
In forensic science, we need to rely on the best available scientific methods for accuracy and efficiency.
We need to prevent wrongful convictions by assuring identifications made are accurate.
All of the above
30s - Q4
Though their intentions may not have been known, fingerprints have been noted in historical settings including:
On ancient building materials
All of the above
Within artwork in tombs
With signatures on contracts
30s - Q5
In 1684, Dr. Nehemiah Grew, an English physician and plant morphologist did what for fingerprinting?
Published analytical drawings and discussions of fingerprint ridge patterns.
Assigned terminology to patterns.
Invented anthropometry for identification purposes.
Stated prints should be used for criminal investigations.
30s - Q6
In 1823, Johannes Purkinje work of ________________, which served as a precursor for modern-day fingerprint classification systems.
inventing a new identification method
using fingerprints for contracts
assigning terminology to patterns and their groups
drawing fingerprint ridge patterns
30s - Q7
Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, was responsible for all of the following EXCEPT FOR:
Offered to build Scotland Yard Police a lab at his own expense.
Recommend anthropometry as a form of identification.
That fingerprinting be used for criminal identification.
Wrote to Charles Darwin about his fingerprint studies.
30s - Q8
A cousin of Charles Darwin, this geneticist published a book called Finger Prints, in which he wrote about classification of prints, their uniqueness, and how they could be applied to investigation?
Faulds
Galton
West
Herschel
30s - Q9
Level II features of fingerprints, known as minutiae, are also sometimes called what?
Class Characteristics
Henry's Classifications
Galton's Details
Darwin's Details
30s - Q10
All of the following are principles of fingerprints EXCEPT FOR:
They are presumptive.
They are unique.
They can be classified.
They remain unchanged.
30s - Q11
The following are all biological facts about fingerprints EXCEPT FOR:
Our fingerprint patterns develop in utero.
Latent prints are from the sweat and oils on our fingers.
Fingerprint patterns can be changed.
Our fingerprints help us to grasp objects.
30s - Q12
The three fingerprint classes are what?
Plain, Tented and Central Pockets
Swirls, Arcs and Whorls
Arches, Loops and Whorls
Deltas, Radial, and Ulnar
30s - Q13
A loop fingerprint has ______ delta and has at least 1 or more ridges that enter, recurve and exit from the __________ side.
2; opposite
1; same
2; same
1; opposite
30s - Q14
In addition to having a circular pattern at its core, whorl fingerprint patterns have how many deltas?
0
2
1
3
30s - Q15
All of the following are true about arch fingerprint patterns EXCEPT FOR:
Lines enter and exit from opposite sides.
They have two subclasses (plain and tented)
They are the most common fingerprint.
They have no delta.
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