Week 1

Question 0

Relating to use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in court of law: forensic laboratory

Answer 0

Forensic

Question 1

Belonging to courts of law or legal proceedings

Pertaining to legal or public discussion or argumentation, public debate

Answer 1

Forensic

Question 2

Not just an applied science
Science of individualization
Science of identity

Answer 2

Criminalistics

Question 3

Process of characteristics as a group of objects sharing common features

Answer 3

Identification

Question 4

Process of illustrating uniqueness

Answer 4

Individualization

Question 5

6 tasks of a criminalist

Answer 5

Observation
Documentation
Collection/Preservation
Analysis
Result or Interpretations 
Communication

Question 6

6 Fundamental Principles

Answer 6

Transfer
Divisible Matter
Identification
Classification
Association
Reconstruction

Question 7

Basic rules for analysis

Answer 7

1) Beware of haste
2) Make it a habit to let reasoning precede action
3) know purpose of experiment
4) understand principles
5) have an expectation of result
6) know how to best & most sensitively observe result
7) perform test safely