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Forensic Science Part I: Fingerprints

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Introduction:
"This is Part 1 to my series on forensic science. The part will focus on fingerprints, the secondary DNA."


1. Which group of ancient people were the first to use fingerprints for personal identification?
    the Chinese
    the Romans
    the Sumerians
    the Greeks


2. Who was the first person to devise a system of classifying fingerprints?
    Charles Darwin
    Nehemiah Grew
    Johannes Purkinje
    G. Bildoo


3. Gloves leave no prints.
    True
    False


4. Before fingerprints, what did people do for identification?
    took samples of blood and hair
    took pictures of everybody and kept them on file
    kept signatures of every person
    measured people's bodies


5. What system of fingerprint classification is most widely used today?
    the Edward system
    the Henry system
    the Herschel system
    the Darwin system


6. Arches are the most common type of fingerprints.
    True
    False


7. What is the main system used by the FBI and other organizations today to find a match to a latent fingerprint?
    FIS
    AFIS
    LPIS
    CATFISH


8. Which one of these is NOT a type of fingerprint found at the scene of the crime?
    visible
    compound
    latent
    plastic


9. UV rays can reveal invisible prints.
    True
    False


10. Getting fingerprints off of human skin is easy, if you have the right tools.
    True
    False


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