Exam 5: Laboratory and Technical Services

A spectrograph is used in the identification of firearms.

_____ is a method of separating compounds to identify the components.

To make the determination of whether or not a person has recently fired a handgun the criminalist would subject hand swabs from the subject to which laboratory examination?

Ultrasonic cavitation involves the graphic identification of human voices.

The process of deciphering codes and ciphers used by criminals to protect the security of their messages is known as: _____.

The person-to-person differences within a particular segment of DNA sequence are known as: _____.

A technique of personal identification that in the future may challenge fingerprints as the most positive means of physical identification is: _____.

The informational output of a crime laboratory depends upon what?

The FBI has selected 13 loci to serve as a standard battery of core loci for DNA analysis.

The deciphering of ciphers and codes that are used to protect the security of messages is known as _____.

_____ is used to restore obliterated serial numbers on firearms.

Each nucleated cell contains the full complement of an individuals DNA, called the genome that is unvarying from cell to cell.

Chromatography is a method used in the identification of crystalline solids.

Degraded, contaminated, and small quantities of DNA can be successfully analyzed in the crime laboratory due to which laboratory process?

Neutron activation analysis is used in the study of _____ residues.

The FBI is supporting the linking of state DNA databases together to form a national database known as _____.

Person-to-person differences within a segment of DNA are referred to as _____.

Identification in criminalistics is aligned with the logic of _____.

The cipher in which one symbol or letter stands for another symbol or letter is known as a transposition cipher.

_____ is the profession and scientific discipline of applying the natural sciences in matters of law.