CHEMISTRY 113
Forensic Science
Final Exam BANK OF QUESTIONS
Directions: Below provides the topics and key ideas that will be found in the groups of questions.
You will be required to answer 7 of a choice of 8 groups of questions on the Final Exam Part I. To
receive the maximum number of points, you must answer all of the questions in the chosen
groups.
Introduction to Forensic Science
1. Locard’s exchange
2. class vs individual evidence
3. Frye vs. Daubert cases
4. 4th Amendment & exemptions to this Amendment.
5. How to analyze a crime scene properly.
Fingerprints
1. Formation of fingerprints in the human body
2. Methods in making latent prints visible.
3. What are minutiae
4. In the print given, define the category of the print, and circle and label 4 distinct minutiae.
5. Latent vs plastic vs. visible prints.
Fiber
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Trace evidence
Differentiate between natural, regenerated, and synthetic fibers?
Plastic?
Name methods of fiber analysis
Forensic Entomology
1. Blowflies role
2. Different niches of the insects in a decomposing body.
3. Other evidence collect in approximating PMI…
Serology
1. 4 components of blood.
2. How to type blood
3. presumptive test vs confirmatory test
4. how the angle of impact can be calculated
5. how the point of convergence is drawn
Hair
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layers of hair
medullary index- animal vs human
DNA in hair?
stages of hair growth?
Caucasoid, vs Mongoloid, vs Negroid hair?
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DNA
1. The process of gel electrophoresis
2. Why DNA is individual evidence
3. Interpret a DNA profile. Determine if there is or is not a match
Forensic Medicine
1. State the manner, cause, and mechanism of death based on a description.
2. How do you estimate the time of someone’s death, given the equation for algor mortis
3. What factors affect the rate of decomposition
Anthropology
1. male vs. female skull
2. Describe the process of ossification of bones.
3. Given a diagram of 2 pelvises above, define each as male/female and why
Ballistics
1. How does the length of the gun barrel effect the projectile? How does the rifling affect the
projectile?
2. caliber vs gauge.
3. Explain how a bullet gets discharged from a firearm
4. Determine velocity when given the equation and supporting info.
5. Determine origin of projectile given supporting info.
Arson and Explosives:
1. tetrahedron of a fire
2. exothermic vs endothermic reaction
3. Describe GC-MS
4. How do you suppress a fire
5. Classification of fire
6. low vs high explosives
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