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What is an antigen?
Substances found on the surface of any foreign molecule or cell in the body that can trigger an immune response
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What is an artery?
Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
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What are the arteries, the veins, and the capillaries?
The three main type of blood vessels (ONLY ONE GROUP CAN WIN THIS)
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What is cohesion?
Due to this process, when blood falls it maintains a round shape.
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What is the ELISA test?
This test uses antibodies that react to human blood to tell if mammal blood is from a human.
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What is a leukocyte?
Another term for White Blood Cell
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What is a satellite?
Small secondary droplets around the main blood spatter drop
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What is a Type B?
An individual with this blood type has only B antigen proteins.
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What is an angle? (angle of impact)
You can measure _____________ of impact in a blood spatter analysis.
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What is 90 degrees?
This is the angle at which the blood traveled and its shaped is most likely round.
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What is a veins?
Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart
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What are spikes?
If blood lands on a porous surface, such as wood or ceiling tile, then the edge of the drop of blood may form extensions
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What is Type O?
The most common of the ABO blood types.
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What is a direction?
Blood spatter analysis shows the _________________ of which blood travled.
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What is Kastle-Meyer?
This test test reacts with blood stains (when seen) and turns pink if blood is present.
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What is an antibody?
Proteins secreted by white blood cells that attach to RBCs as an immune response
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What is Forensic Serrology?
The study of blood applied to a crime
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What is a universal recipient? What is a type AB?
An individual with this blood type can receive blood from everyone.
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What is the manner in which the victim died?
Blood typing CANNOT help in determining this.
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What is elongated?
When traveling from a 10-degree angle the shape of a blood drop is
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What is an erythrocyte?
Another term for Red Blood Cell
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What is class evidence?
Blood typing is considered this type of evidence?
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What is a universal donor? What is a Type O?
An individual with this blood type can donate to everyone.
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What is Luminol?
This chemical is sprayed on the scene to look for hidden blood.
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What is low velocity?
If the size of the droplets are larger than 4 mm, then the velocity at which it took place is
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