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A system of identification of individuals by measurement of parts of the body developed by Alphonse Bertillon |
Anthropometry |
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A class a fingerprint characterized by ridge lines that enter the print from one side and flew out the other side |
Arch |
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A process through which a picture is converted into a series of square electronic, dots, known as a pixls |
Digital imaging |
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To emit visible light when exposed to light of a shorter wavelength |
Floresce |
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A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints by exposing them to iodine vapors |
Iodine fuming |
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I fingerprint made by the deposit of skin oils, and or perspiration, and invisible to the naked eye |
Latent fingerprint |
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In English device that captures digital images of fingerprints and palm, print and electronically transmits them to an AFIS |
Live scan |
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A class of fingerprints characterized by ridgelines, enter from one side of the pattern and curve around to exit from the same side of the pattern |
Loop |
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A chemical reagent used to develop latent fingerprints on porous material reacting with amino acids in perspiration |
Ninhydrin |
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A silver nitrate based reagent formulated to develop latent fingerprints on porous surfaces |
Physical developer |
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A square electronic dog that is used to compose a digital image |
Pixel |
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A fingerprint impressed in a soft surface |
Plastic print |
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A verbal description of a perpetrators, physical characteristics, and dress provided by an eye witness |
Portrait parlé |
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Ridge endings, bifurcations, enclosures, and other bridge details which much match into fingerprints to establish their common origin |
Ridge characteristics |
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A physical change from the solid state directly into a gas state |
Sublimation |
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A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints or nonporous surfaces by exposing them to cyanoacrylate vapors name for the commercial product super glue |
Super glue fuming |
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The type of fingerprint made with a finger deposits of visible material, such as ink, dirt, or blood onto a surface |
Visible print |
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Acasa fingerprints that includes Ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular |
Whorl |
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In writing his textbook on fingerprints, sir, Francis Galton was building on the groundbreaking work in this area by |
Fauld |
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Who devised the fingerprint classification system used in most English speaking countries |
Henry |
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Will west was the man who |
Had a virtual double with a similar name |
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Under which circumstances have two people been found to have identical, fingerprints |
None to date |
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It is estimated that there are how many Ridge characteristics in an average complete fingerprint |
150 |
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What are the most commonly encountered Ridge characteristics used by AFIS? |
Bifurcation and ridge ending |
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What is the minimum number of Ridge characteristics necessary before to fingerprints can be identified as the same |
No minimum exists |
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What are fingerprints formed? |
During fetal development |
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What is the purpose of friction skin ridges? |
To resist slippage, and to provide a firmer grip |
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Where are the pores of the sweat glands located? |
Skin ridges |
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Prints that are not readily visible, are commonly referred to as what |
Latent |
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To permanently alter his or her fingerprint and produce scars a person must damage what |
Dermal papillae |
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The second fundamental principle of fingerprints is that a fingerprint is an individual characteristic |
False |
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Which characteristics are rich, endings, bifurcations, and closures and other Ridge details, and they must match in to fingerprints to establish common origin |
True |
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The second fundamental theory of fingerprints states of the fingerprint remains unchanged, once the individual enters adulthood |
False |
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The shape of the boundary formed from the dermal papillae determines the fingerprint pattern |
True |
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Latent fingerprint is a fingerprint made by the deposit of oils and or perspiration that is visible to the naked eye |
False |
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It is possible to obscure ones fingerprints by scarring |
False |
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The third fundamental principle of fingerprints is at the fingerprints have general Ridge patterns that permit them to be systematically classified |
True |
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Loops are the most common type of fingerprint patterns |
True |
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Loops include Ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular |
False |
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A plain arch is the simplest of all fingerprint patterns |
True |
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The primary classification is the first step and classifying fingerprints under the FBI system |
True |
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When using AFIS, the computer makes the final verification of the prince identity |
False |