FORENSIC 1 TO 3 Flashcards
ACTIVE RECALL
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PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION
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2
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- What principle involve in personal Identification which states that the greater the number of similarity or difference the greater the probability for the identity or non-identity to be conclusive?
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B. Law of multiplicity of evidence
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- What method of identification discovered in 1985 by Prof. Alec Jeffreys in United Kingdom?
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C. DNA Fingerprinting
4
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- Identification of person can be done either by Comparison or by____?
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A. Exclusion
5
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- He is known as the Father of Modern
Fingerprint, whose system of classification was spread in almost all English speaking country?
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B. Edward Richard Henry
6
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- Complete this adage, “the neighboring fingers of the same person have never found to be _____________”.
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D. Exactly identical an all respects
7
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- A system of Identification best used in case of burned body?
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B. Odontology
8
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- The word finger was derived from what Latin word?
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B. Dactyl
9
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- Is the person who discover the two main layer of the friction skin (Epidermis and Dermis) and to whom one of the thin layer of the friction skin was
named?
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C. Marcelo Malpighi
10
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- What patterns do not have numerical value in primary classification?
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D. Loops and Arches
11
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- What are canals of depression found between ridges called?
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B. Furrows
12
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- Is a system of identification use earlier than fingerprint system, and is made by measuring the various bony structure of the human body developed by Alphonse Bertillion?
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D. Anthropometry
13
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- Is that part of the friction skin which if
damaged will constitute a temporary scar?
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B. Dermis
14
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- What ridge divides itself into two or more branches that meets to form the original figure?
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B. Enclosure
14
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- It refers to all fingerprints left at the crime scene including those left accidentally or unconsciously?
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B. Latent prints
15
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- What kind of a ridge resembles a dot, fragment or a period?
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B. Island ridge
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- Is a short horizontal ridge found inside a re- curving ridge which has spoiled the inner line of flow from the inner delta to the center of the pattern? This is also found in the second type of central pocket loop.
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D. Obstruction
17
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- Is the type of pattern in which the course is traced the line flow below the right delta and there are three intervening ridge.
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C. Outer whorl
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- The principle in fingerprint study that states that fingerprint cannot be forged. Fingerprint is a reliable and a positive means of identification.
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A. Principle of infallibility
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- What is the main layer of the epidermis, which covers the surface on which ridges are visible?
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C. Stratum corneoum
20
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- Is fingerprint patterns have slope or downward flow of recurving ridge towards the thumb or the radius bone of the hand?
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C. Radial loop
21
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- The right and left little fingers are used
exclusively for final classification. However, they are also considered in what classification?
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D. Final
22
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- Given a symbol of letter W in fingerprint classification, and having two deltas, in which at least on ridge forming a complete circuit?
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B. Plain whorl
23
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- How deep is the cut to produced permanent scar?
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B. More than 1mm
24
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- How many standard fingerprint patterns are there? (Types)
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C. Eight
25
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- In taking rolled impressions, the index finger should be rolled:
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C. Away from the body of the subject
26
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- Before the classification of the fingerprints, the first thing to do is:
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A. Blocking of the fingerprint.
27
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- Among the following, which of these is not an element of plain whorl?
A. A complete circuit
B. At least one ridge count
C. Two deltas
D. At least one circuiting ridge is touched by an imaginary line traversing the two deltas
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B. At least one ridge count
28
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- Among the following, which of these is not true about accidental whorl?
A. There two deltas
B. May contain two or more cores
C. Two loop patterns are present having separate shoulders
D. Combination of two whorls and a loop
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C. Two loop patterns are present having
separate shoulders
29
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- If an appendage is present between the shoulders of a loop (innermost recurve), the one being considered for purposes of locating the core is?
A. Next loop inside
B. Similar loop with an appendage
C. Next loop outside with no appendage at
right angle
D. Next loop outside with appendage at right angle
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C. Next loop outside with no appendage at
right angle
30
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- As a fingerprint examiner, in classifying a type of pattern having a set of ridges flowing from the left side towards the right side of the pattern. If you are the examiner, which of the following
ridges be chosen as a delta?
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A. Bifurcation
31
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- Located along the undersides of the fingers, palms, toes, and soles appear corrugated skin structure known to the biologist as:
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A. Friction skin
32
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- It is a type of latent prints which are made visible due to contact of the subject hands and fingers to some soft object that can assume the patterns once compressed such as, those of soap,
clay etc.
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C. Molded
33
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- Is the distance of recognition in broad daylight of a person who is almost a stranger?
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C. 25 yards
34
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- Prints which were left in the place accidentally or unconsciously?
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A. Chance prints
35
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- The identification of two impressions can be established primarily through:
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A. Formation of different types of pattern
36
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- A ridge that is so thin or fine compare to other regular ridge which is not included as a ridge count even if it has been cross by the imaginary line?
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C. Incipient ridge
37
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- What is that ridge that divides into two ridges and which resembles a fork structure?
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B. Bifurcation
38
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- Is the reproduction on some smooth surface of the design formed by the ridges on the end joint of the fingers and thumb through the media of an ink or any other reagent capable of producing visibility?
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C. Fingerprint
39
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- To determine whether a loop is a radial, it is very important that we should know in what ____ the fingerprints came from.
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A. Hand
39
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- In final classification, which delta of central pocket loop whorl and plain whorl should be selected if the patterns originate at the right hand?
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A. Left
40
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- Considered as the three basic types of ridge characteristics are:
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C. Ridge endings, dot and bifurcations
41
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- Points often missed in rolling impressions?
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B. Delta
42
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- Refers to the means of recognizing the
characteristics of persons so as to differentiate him from others
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C. Identification
43
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- In examining a fingerprint pattern having 2 deltas and a core with few spiral formations at the center but no recurving ridge is cut. What type of pattern was being examined?
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B. C
44
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- It is the lower or the inner layer of the skin that must not be destructed for it could possibly create a permanent injury that may result to the loss of the ridges. What is the canal like structure
found between ridges?
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B. Furrows
45
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- In locating the delta, which of the following statements must be considered first?
A. Dots and fragments may only be considered as bifurcations if they are as thick as the other ridges
B. The delta may not be located in the middle of a ridge running between the type lines towards the core, but at the nearer end only
C. Delta must be located midway between two diverging type lines or just in-front of where they diverge
D. Bifurcation takes precedence over any
possible delta
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D. Bifurcation takes precedence over any
possible delta
46
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- Before the arrival of the DNA test, personal identification through fingerprint is most widely used around the world in positively identifying person especially if the subject is beyond recognition. The reason behind lies on the principle that:
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C. Not two persons have identical
fingerprint
47
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- Between birth and death, there are ______ changes in the number of ridge characteristics of the fingerprint.
A. Considerable
C. Few
B. Various
D. No
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D. No
48
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- It is the only division in the fingerprint card that does not have a denominator?
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D. Key division
49
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- Alphonse Bertillon is a well-known French Criminologist who devised a scheme of identification known as the Anthropometry System. Under this system, Bertillon stated that human skeleton does not change after how many
years?
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D. 20
50
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- Condition before fragments and dots are counted:
A. They must be found inside the pattern area
B. They must be in the line of flow
C. They must cut or touched by the
imaginary line
D. They must be thick and heavy as other ridges
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C. They must cut or touched by the
imaginary line
51
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- The ridges of the skin is part of the dermal surface that is why sometimes it is called as the dermal ridges and it will not be forge. This statement best describes as:
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B. The principle of infallibility
52
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- What is the order of the divisions as shown in the classification line of the fingerprint card?
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C. Key, major, primary, secondary, sub-
secondary, final
53
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- Which of the following best describes a loop pattern?
A. Presence of 1 sufficient recurving ridge
B. Has a bifurcation as the delta
C. 1 core at the point of divergence
D. All of these
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D. All of these
54
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- Sub-secondary division is derived by ridge counting of loop and ridge tracing a whorl appearing on what fingers?
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B. Index, middle, and ring fingers
55
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- Split thumb, webbed or grown finger together are called as:
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D. Ectodactyl
56
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- A system of classification used in the
Philippines:
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D. Galton-Henry System with FBI
Modification and Extension
57
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- The first conviction in the Philippine Case which gives recognition to the science of fingerprint?
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A. People vs. Medina
58
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- Is the person known for being the U.S. public enemy number one, who attempts to destroy his friction by applying a corrosive acid?
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B. John Dillinger
59
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- What kind of pattern has two deltas in which at least one ridge makes a turn through one complete circuit?
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D. Plain whorl
60
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- Who is the Argentinian Police official began the first fingerprint files base on Galton Patterns. He developed his own system of Classifying prints which was officially adopted in Argentina?
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A. Juan Vucetich
61
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- Is that appears as tiny black line with white dots (called pores) in an inked finger impression?
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B. Ridges
62
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- What type of a pattern possesses an angle, an up trust, or two of the three basic characteristics of the loop?
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B. Tented arch
63
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- What is the type of a pattern in which the looping or slanting ridges flows from the little finger?
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B. Ulnar loop
64
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- The core and delta are also termed as _____?
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B. Focal point
65
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- Which of the following ridge characteristics will be highly prioritized as delta?
A. A short ridge over an island ridge at its
divergence point
B. A bifurcation leading towards the outside direction of the pattern farther with core
C. A ridge ending that reached the very shoulder of the ridges
D. None of these
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B. A bifurcation leading towards the outside direction of the pattern farther with core
66
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- What is the rule where there are two or more possible bifurcation deltas which conform to the definition of delta?
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A. The one nearest the core should be
chosen
67
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- Is that part of whorl or loop where the delta, core and ridges appear?
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B. Pattern area
68
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- If the number of intervening ridges is below three, then this would be classified as;
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B. Meeting whorl
69
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- What division in the classification formula which is always represented by numerical value depending upon a whorl pattern appearing in each finger?
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A. Primary
70
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- What patterns are included in the secondary division in deriving the small letter category?
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C. Radial, plain arch and tented arch
71
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- A numerical value of 32 over 32 would indicate all ___ patterns in primary classification?
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B. Whorl
71
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- What division in the classification formula is derived from both little finger and is place at the extreme right of the classification formula?
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C. Final
72
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- He took prints of his own palm twice with the lapse of forty-one years just to prove that prints do not change, except for some scratches due to
old age.
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A. Herman Welcker
73
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- That part of the friction skin between the epidermis and dermis layer which responsible for the ridge formation?
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C. Dermal papillae
74
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- All, except one, are elements of a whorl pattern?
A. It may contain 2 or more deltas
B. Several pattern may be present
C. Usually possessing of a circular formation at the
center
D. None of these
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D. None of these
74
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- The following are considerations used for classification of a loop except one:
A. A delta
B. A ridge count across a looing ridge
C. A sufficient recurve
D. Core
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D. Core
75
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- When a ridge bifurcates, sending two ridges across the imaginary line, how is it counted?
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C. Two
76
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- Is a ridge formation sometime being
misinterpret as a bifurcation because of its close resemblance? This ridge is known as.
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B. Converging ridge
76
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- Is the type of impression taken simultaneously and serves as a guide in checking the proper rolling of the finger in the card?
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B. Plain Impression
77
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- Is the type of an impression made or printed on the card by individually rolling the ten fingers of the subject.
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C. Rolled Impression
78
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- He is the chief magistrate of Hoogly District in India, first use fingerprints on contracts with the natives, he is also considered as the father of chiroscopy?
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D. William James Herschel
79
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- Knowledge of the fingerprint’s unique naturedid not surface in the European countries until a lecture was given by a British doctor, who was a fellow of the royal society that published the
treaties entitled “ De Externo Tactus Organo” ?
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B. Marcelo Malphigi
80
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- Is a fingerprint pattern in which the ridges form a sequence of spirals around core axis?
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C. Whorl
81
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- Is the process of placing under each pattern the letter symbols as a result of the interpretation?
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D. Blocking
82
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- Before classifying any given fingerprint card it is necessary to check first the rolled prints to determine proper placement of the prints using______ as the guide.
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B. The plain impression
83
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- It refers to the number of ridges that appears between the tracing ridge and the right delta of a whorl pattern?
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D. Ridge tracing
84
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- Who is that fingerprint pioneer who introducesthe fingerprint classifications
that dominated in almost English speaking countries?
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A. Sir Edward Richard Henry
85
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- A delta may be any of the following, except:
A. A meeting of two ridges
B. Dot or fragment as thick as the other ridges
C. A bifurcation opening towards the delta
D. A point on the first recurving ridge located nearest to the center and in-front of the divergence of the type lines
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C. A bifurcation opening towards the delta
86
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- It is the very center of the pattern and one of the very important focal points of a certain pattern especially for loops. What is that core of the patterns having terminal point?
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D. Ridge ending
87
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- A British anthropologist and cousin of Charles Darwin, who began his observation of fingerprint as a means of identifications in 1800’s. According
to his calculations, the odd of two individual’s fingerprint being the same is 1 in 64 billion. He identified the characteristics by which fingerprints
can be identified. These same characteristics (minutia) are basically still in use today, and are often refeed to as ____ details, after his name.
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C. Galton
88
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- What division will be left blank in the
classification formula if all fingers are missing?
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D. Key and final Division
89
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- Is a pattern possessing most of the elemental characteristics of a whorl, but became special because of its unique combination of two distinct loops. This statement is referring to what type of
pattern?
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B. Double loop whorl
90
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- In case of double thumb of the same size what should be the course of action in classifying them.
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C. Classify only the inner thumb
91
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- In Ridge counting an Accidental Whorl It should be:
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C. Get the least number of ridge counts
92
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- It is obtained by counting the ridges of the first loop appearing on the fingerprint card (beginning with the right thumb), exclusively of the little fingers which are never considered for the key as
they are reserved for the final?
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C. Key
93
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- It is a short ridge found at the summit or at the top of re-curving ridge:
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Appendage
94
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- In fingerprint pattern, it refers to an end point of a ridges or a ridge with abrupt ending it is what kind of ridge?
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C. Ending
95
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- In fingerprint classification, what would be the result if the slab not properly cleaned after its use?
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A. Blurred
96
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- The fingerprint identification. The pattern which conforms to one of the definition but is not a plain arch is termed as?
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D. Accidental whorl
97
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FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY
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98
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- It refers to a short duration artificial light commonly attached to a camera?
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D. Flash bulb
99
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- In a special photography using film that was sensitive to UV light and primary colors, you are using what type of film?
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C. Panchromatic film
100
Q
- A photographer in crime scene investigation has to get as many photographs as he can. The first
shot that he should make just after reaching the crime scene is the house where the crime of murder was committed to one of its ten rooms. In
getting the façade of the house what lens should be utilized?
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B. Wide angle lens
101
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- A black and white films possess several
characteristics such as speed, spectra sensitivity and granularity. The speed will be referring to the sensitivity of the film to light, granularity is the graininess, and the spectral is the sensitivity to:
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A. Wavelength
102
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- Ultra-violet light differs from infra-red light in 3 F”s which stands for Film, filter and _____?
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C. Focus
103
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- When taking a snap shot and expecting it to be sharp but an alteration happened to the expected image because it can be seen in two viewpoints. What is this phenomenon?
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A. Parallax
104
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- Which part of the camera is used in focusing the light from the subject?
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B. Lens
105
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- Is a camera accessory designed to fix the camera focus and avoid its unusual movement during the process of photographing?
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B. Tripod
106
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- Which of the following film can record all the colors of the visible light spectrum?
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C. Panchromatic Film
107
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- In the modernization of the photography. DSLR camera almost dominated the market because of its great features that are very useful in commercial photo-shoots. What do DSLR
means?
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C. Digital single lens reflex camera
108
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12 Is the stage in the developing process where the image becomes permanent?
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B. Acid fixer
108
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- Is the stage in the developing process where the image is formed?
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A. Developer
109
Q
- A British scientist who made the first miniature cameras, the so-called “mouse trap” cameras:
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C. Willian Henry Fox Talbot
110
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- The determining factor of the size of an image as well as the area of coverage of a given camera lens is the?
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A. Focal length
111
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- In 1947 Edwin Land Introduce the one step photography also known as Polaroid. What will produce by the LASER?
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B. Holograms
112
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- The lens opening also known as the relative aperture is the indicator for light transmitting capability of the lens. Which of the following lens opening will admit more light to pass through its medium?
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B. F-8
113
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- The fish eye lens is a special type of camera having a view angle of:
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D. 180 degrees
114
Q
- What is considered as the utmost used of photography in police work?
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C. For record purpose
115
Q
- The following are components of black and white film, except:
A. Anti-halation
C. Emulsion
B. Base
D. Gelatin
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A. Anti-halation
116
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- It is a circular dome-like image?
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C. Curvature of field
