Hair Evidence Vocabulary A | Hair Evidence Vocabulary B | Hair Evidence Facts | Hair Evidence Facts | Distal Hair Tips |
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What is a Comparison Microscope?
Microscope that views side by side images of hair samples
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What is a Fluorescence Microscope?
Microscope that uses light to indicate the presence of dyes
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Keratin
This protein makes up the hair shaft
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What is Class Evidence?
Hair without a root is called this type of evidence.
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What are Scissors (Freshly cut)?
Tip that is partially compressed
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What is the Cortex?
The layer of hair that contains pigment granules
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What is the Follicular Tag?
The part of the hair which can be analyzed for DNA
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Follicle/root AND hair shaft
Two main parts of the hair...
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Index
The width of the medulla and the width of the hair is used to calculate the medullary _________ of the hair.
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What are Clippers?
Tip that reveals broken and partially cut shafts.
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What is the Cuticle?
Transparent outer layer of the hair
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What is the Medulla?
The central core of the hair
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What is the Cortex?
If I use a pencil, this is the wood portion
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What is a Fragmented/Segmented Medulla?
The following pattern is a specific type of medulla pattern.
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What is Uncut?
Tip that is tapered, round, split or frayed.
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What is an Electron Microscope?
Microscope that provides incredible tiny details of the surface or interior of a hair sample
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What are 3 Years?
The amount of time a full head of hair gets replaced...
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What is a Secondary Transfer?
When dog hair is transferred from your shirt to your school chair, this is one type of transfer.
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Head hair, underarm hair,, chest hair, beard & mustache hair, eye brows & eyelashes
One type of hair found on your upper half of the body.
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What is a Razor?
Tip has a long tail on one side of the cut.
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What is a Follicle?
Club-shaped structure in the skin from which hair is produced
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True
Is the following true about which has the most hair?
Blondes > Brunettes > Red Heads |
50; 25
_______ control hair from head and _____ control hairs from the pubic region should be collected from a suspect to compare to hairs found in at a crime scene.
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Pubic Hair, leg hair
One type of hair found on your upper half of the body.
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Cuticle, Cortex, Medulla
Three parts of the hair shaft. (Whichever group gets this first gets the points ONLY)
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