FORENSIC SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

FORENSIC SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Forensic Science - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the applications to matters of science to law



-As well as. . .

The business of providing timely, accurate, and thorough information to all levels of decisions makers in
our criminal justice system.



Criminalistics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the scientific examination of physical evidence for legal purposes
This term is synomous with forensic science



Criminology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅includes the physcological angle, studying the crime scene for
motive, traits, and behavior that will help to interpret the evidence



Divisions of Crime Lab - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅**Physical Science Unit

-chemistry

-physics



**Geology



**Biology Unit(DNA)



**Firearms Unit(tool mark)



**Document Examination Unit



**Photography Unit



Edmond Locard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅**French professor

, **Considered the father of: criminalistics( understood the importance of nature in crime scenes and
other cases.)




**Built the world's first forensic laboratory in France in 1910



Exchange Principle

Whenever two objects come into contact with each other, traces of each are exchanged.



Alphonse Bertillon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Father of: criminal identification



Francis Galton - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First to develop a method of: first to develop a method using
fringerprints as a means of identification.4f



Dr. Karl Landsteiner - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An Austrian physician that identified the A, B, AB, and O
blood groups in 1901.



Rudolf Virchow - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A German pathologist who standardized a way to preform
autopsies one of two ways still used today.



** His cell theory, ("Omnis cellula e cellula") said that cells arise only from other cells.



scientific method - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Observe a problem



2. Consider a hypothesis or possible solution.



3. Examine, test, and then analyze the evidence.



4. Determine the significance of the evidence.