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This unique pattern found on every person's fingertips has been used to identify criminals since the late 1800s.
Difficulty: Easy- Fingerprints
- Palm lines
- Skin pores
- Hand veins
This term describes the transfer of trace evidence between objects or people who come into contact, forming the basis of forensic trace analysis.
Difficulty: Medium- Trace transfer theory
- Locard's exchange principle
- Cross-contamination theory
- Evidence migration law
This phenomenon in DNA mixtures occurs when one allele at a locus fails to amplify, potentially leading to incorrect interpretation of contributor profiles.
Difficulty: Hard- Allelic dropout
- Stutter artifact
- Peak imbalance
- Null allele
This abbreviation stands for the genetic material found in almost every cell of your body that can definitively link a suspect to a crime scene.
Difficulty: Easy- RNA
- DNA
- ATP
- CSF
This waxy, soap-like substance forms on bodies submerged in water or buried in wet environments, preserving soft tissue features for identification.
Difficulty: Medium- Decomposition wax
- Corpse lipid
- Adipocere
- Necrotic soap
This mathematical model, developed at FSS in the UK, uses continuous methods to interpret complex DNA mixtures with more than two contributors.
Difficulty: Hard- TrueAllele
- LRmix Studio
- STRmix
- DNA-VIEW
At a crime scene, investigators draw this outline to mark where a victim's body was found before it is removed.
Difficulty: Easy- Crime circle
- Evidence marker
- Body outline
- Victim trace
This type of DNA analysis targets specific locations on chromosomes that vary in repeat length between individuals.
Difficulty: Medium- Mitochondrial DNA analysis
- Y-chromosome analysis
- Single nucleotide polymorphism
- Short tandem repeat analysis
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