Section 5.4 Flashcards
Some forensic people will tell you if you get a good voice recoding and they can compare it it will give you a high degree of certainty if it is the same voice or not. Does science support this?
no
Are voiceprints accurate?
no
You can take the spoken or written word and what they can tell about you based on the way you talk or write is what?
Language Analysis
Accents help with what?
language analysis
Accents and the way you talk can help determine where you are from. True or false
True
Are there different kinds of DNA?
Yes
What is the most useful DNA?
Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA is made up of four chemicals?
ACGT
Humans are based on base 10. DNA is base 4 and ACGT makes up the blueprints for every living thing. True or False
True
Found in the mitochondria part of the cells is what?
Mitochondrial DNA
Example, you and your mother and your grandmother and great grandmother have the exact same _________ DNA.
Mitochondrial
Nuclear DNA is a combination of what?
mom and dad
What DNA comes down through the female line and means that it only distinguishable to the family?
Mitochondrial DNA
Example, if we find DNA at the scene and we cannot get the nuclear DNA because it is degraded and we only get mitochondrial DNA we can only narrow it down to a family. True or False
True
What is the big database for DNA for the federal government?
CODIS
What are the two sections of the CODIS database?
known offenders
unidentified crime scene
This section has blood samples for known offenders.
Known offenders section
Example, people in prison if we have got their DNA sample it is stored in what part of the CODIS database?
Known offenders section