Quizfind 41 – Forensics

1. These stimulants are not physically addictive, however the users can become dependent on the high obtained. The body builds up a tolerance, and the user requires larger doses, with many side-effects.
2. At a murder scene, a forensic scientist can glean a great deal of information from the quantity, distribution, and shape of these stains.
3. When a body is taut or frightened at the time of death, it can have one of these spasms, causing the body to stiffen.
4. Early studies have found that males with an extra ‘Y’ what, are prone to anti-social behaviour, and also exhibit different palmar ridge patterns from his parents and brothers.
5. One the cause death is estblished, the pathologist decides whether the case is dealt with by this person at inquest.
6. This phenomenon is used when a body is found in a differnt location to where it was drowned. If a body is dead on entry into the water, there are very few diatoms found in the body, however if the body is alive when entering the water, diatoms are pumped through the body, and are found in organs and bone marrow.
7. People often do this, but rarely by homicide; mostly by accident.
8. Where a shoe-print may be too weak to be useful, these mats are used to raise the image to the surface, via a static charge.
9. Microscopic examination can reveal a single one, matching either a murderer’s or victim’s clothing worn at the scene of the crime.
10. Only after this has been extinguished, and the building secured, can investigators sift through the debris, to establish arson or accident.
11. Points of comparison are used to identify prints left by these, such as imperfections in manufacture, seam stitching patterns, wear and repairs etc.
12. The medic waits until the post-mortem examination before committing himself to a cause-of-death, such as these wounds, inflicted by a firearm.
13. This vitreous what, a jelly-like fluid behind the eye, which is extracted by syringe, and replaced with water, is used as a more accurate indicator of the time-of-death.
14. This spectrum of a substance, each pattern is unique, and can be identified positively, however the drug has to be in as pure a state as possible, for analysis.

15. The soluble compounds of this liquid metal are very dangerous. The salts of this are used in medicine, and many other applications.

16. Every person has a unique, invisible what, that a tracker dog can trace, by a sniff of an item belonging to the criminal?

17. Their jobs are to perform a post-mortem examination, to discover the cause of death, on bodies discovered under suspicious circumstances.

18. The toxicology department, of forensic science defines this as: ‘a substance that when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism may destroy life or injure health’.

19. When rigor mortis leaves the body, this process begins.

20. This drug is classed as an addictive chemical hallucinogen.

21. None of the three measurements for time of death are reliable: body temperature, hypostasis, and …..Mortis (this process takes about 12 hrs to complete).

22. This is an ideal secretion for DNA profiling, and their genetic fingerprint can convict the perpetrator of such crimes as rape.

23. This cause of death occurs, because of a combination of anoxia, and carbon dioxide poisoning.

24. This cutting is not encountered very often since Jack-the-Ripper days, because of the difficulty with a struggling person, so usually done while bound, or unconscious.

25. After death, body temperature is lost rather rapidly for the first few hours, until it is the same as the surrounds. These temperatures are recorded to estimate the what of death?

26. A criminal will always take something away from a scene, and leave what evidence behind.

27. Casts of these prints, taken from the scene of a crime are useful in connecting a vehicle to an offence.

28. They say that this is as unique to an individual as a finger print, as a means of identification.