Forensic Science Semester Exam Review Answer Key. 20 1. Wear and brand are
two characteristics of shoe prints. 13 2. Minerals are where soil gets its color.
Forensic Science Semester Exam Review Answer Key 20 1. Wear and brand are two characteristics of shoe prints. 13 2. Minerals are where soil gets its color. 16 3. Sand is the bottom layer of soil. 8
4. The Four compass points is the pattern used to take a soil sample.
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5. You should place a soil sample in folded paper.
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6. August Vollmer was the Chief of the Berkeley, CA Police Dept crime-solving agency.
19 7. Tool marks helped detectives solve the murder of Charles Lindbergh’s child. 6
8. Criminalistics is another word for forensic science.
18 9. Three D animation will be used in the future to understand a crime scene and explain it to juries. 1
10. A tool would leave striations at a crime scene.
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11. Ballistics is the study of bullets and firearms called.
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12. Imperfections in the barrel of the gun leaves marks on a bullet when it is fired.
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13. If the chain of custody is not maintained this might cause a case to be dismissed in court.
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14. Chain of custody is called control of evidence.
15 15. The advantage of having a crime lab is that it provides tools and environment for examining evidence. 17 16. The police officer at the scene notifies the CSI to go to the crime scene. 10 17. DNA is found in every cell in the body. 11 18. What can a DNA analysis accomplish? It can establish a suspect’s innocence. 14 19. The Innocence Project designed to help people wrongfully convicted of crimes. 12 20. Maternal twins have identical DNA.
