forensic-science-study-guide-50-questions-1

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What does DNA stand for and what is its general form? Where is DNA found?

ï‚· What are nucleotides and what is complementary pairing?

ï‚· What is mitochondrial DNA and how is it inherited?

ï‚· According to the ABO Blood Typing system, how is blood type determined? What does it mean to have

type A blood i.e.?

ï‚· What is the Rh factor of blood also known as and how is it described with blood type?

ï‚· What is the most common blood type?

ï‚· What are the components of blood?

ï‚· What are the three ways seminal fluid can be confirmed to be a true sample and how?

ï‚· What are buccal swabs and how are they used?

ï‚· What are the three generations of DNA typing technology? And how do they differ?

ï‚· What is CODIS?

ï‚· What are the four subfield of anthropology? Where do forensic anthropologists fit in?

ï‚· What factors should an anthropologist confirm with potential skeletal evidence?

ï‚· What may you see on a skull that indicates that it does NOT have forensic significance?

ï‚· What are the four things that make up the biological profile in skeletal examinations?

ï‚· How would an anthropologist determine if skeletal remains are male v. female and why?

ï‚· What are typically traits of the skull for Caucasoids? Negroids? Mongoloids?

ï‚· How may an anthropologist determine age? Or stature?

ï‚· What is necrophagy?

ï‚· What is forensic entomology and what are its 3 general areas?

ï‚· What are the four categories of insects in medicolegal contexts?

ï‚· What is PMI? What 2 methods of forensic entomology are used to determine it?

ï‚· What is the typical life cycle of a fly?

ï‚· How do we distinguish between larval stages of flies?

ï‚· What may influence fly development?

ï‚· What is entomotoxicology and its applications?

ï‚· What is myiasis? Why types of populations may be affected by it? Why is that a concern?

ï‚· What are potential challenges in forensic entomology?

ï‚· What is ivory and what different species can it derive from?

ï‚· What two court cases created standards for forensic science in the legal setting?

o What are the five standards addressed by the aforementioned court cases?

ï‚· What laws relate to the investigation of wildlife in the forensic setting?

ï‚· What is taxonomy and the categories used to sort species?

ï‚· What is the definition of a species?